On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:22:33 -0700 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> > >> The we duplicate all the relevant /proc knobs: > >> > >> cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio > >> 30 > >> cat /proc/sys/vm/hires-dirty_ratio/ > >> 300000 > >> > >> Or we do something else ;) > > > > Sounds better. I wasn't very keen on the userspace interface that this > > exposed. Will look at those. > > > > Okay... may be I could throw a spanner in the machinery, and suggest > another option: perhaps we should add a way to do sysctl which can > handle fractional (fixed-point) values... more coherent/detailed message > tomorrow.
I prefer the fixed-point values for pressure and dirty* to having duplicated entries for each of them. I'll proceed with that idea. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
