Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752912AbaGJOR1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:17:27 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([193.170.194.197]:43655 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751417AbaGJOR0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:17:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 16:17:23 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Sebastien Buisson Cc: Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow increasing the buffer-head per-CPU LRU size Message-ID: <20140710141723.GS18735@two.firstfloor.org> References: <53B667F9.90306@bull.net> <87y4w6sbp7.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> <53BA772C.6040506@bull.net> <20140707163003.GA18735@two.firstfloor.org> <20140707152936.a286b0f46ae1b06aa41c1959@linux-foundation.org> <20140707224634.GE18735@two.firstfloor.org> <53BB8F7C.1060505@bull.net> <53BE37E5.4030407@bull.net> <20140710000745.37be4400.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <53BE40E3.6000101@bull.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <53BE40E3.6000101@bull.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 09:29:39AM +0200, Sebastien Buisson wrote: > > Le 10/07/2014 09:07, Andrew Morton a ?crit : > >This hardwires 16 if ext4"a and 8 otherwise. There's no way for > >anyone to alter this decision if they think it will be helpful (or > >harmful) in their setup. > > In fact I do not know how to let experienced people alter the value > without confusing the others with yet another obscure config option > (Andi's comment). I would welcome any suggestion to achieve this. I don't think we should generally expose it. If someone really wants to experiment they can change the source. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/