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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > > Time for CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_THROUGHPUT / CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_LATENCY ?
> > That would be the best thing to do, yes.
> 
> /proc/sys not CONFIG_..

/proc/sys/vm/bdflush, to be precise.

I thought we discussed all this?

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