>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andrew> Robin Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> One other issue we have is the vm_dirty_ratio and background_ratio >> adjustments are a little coarse with these memory sizes. Since our >> minimum adjustment is 1%, we are adjusting by 40GB on the largest >> configuration from above. The hardware we are shipping today is >> capable of going to far greater amounts of memory, but we don't >> have customers demanding that yet. I would like to plan ahead for >> that and change vm_dirty_ratio from a straight percent into a >> millipercent (thousandth of a percent). Would that type of change >> be acceptable? Andrew> Oh drat. I think such a change would require a new set of Andrew> /proc entries. No, you could just extend them to understand fixed point. Keep printing integers as integers, print non-integers with one (or two: will we ever need 0.01% increments?) decimal places. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au The technical we do immediately, the political takes *forever* - 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/
