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Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 06:41:12 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [rfc] "laptop mode"
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Hi!

> > > Yes, it could be per-queue.  That would add complexity to
> > > the already-murky fs/fs-writeback.c.  It that justifiable?
> > 
> > I dunno, it's up to you. I guess this is mainly IDE specific anyways,
> > but you apply the same logic to just one (for instance) of your disks on
> > a home desktop system.
> 
> Well it's a convenience thing.  Not really worth a lot of code.
> I expect most of the proposed functionality could be provided
> from userspace anyway via the disk IO number in /proc/stat:

noflushd is about that...
								Pavel

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