From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B22F6B00FE for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 09:01:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 15:01:28 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: do we really want to export more pdflush details in sysctls Message-ID: <20090513130128.GA10382@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Peter W Morreale , torvalds@osdl.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com, akpm@osdl.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi all, commit fafd688e4c0c34da0f3de909881117d374e4c7af titled "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads" adds two more sysctl variables exposing details about pdflush threads. At the same time Jens Axboe is working on the per-bdi writeback patchset which will hopefull soon get rid of the pdflush threads in their current form. Is it really a good idea to expose more details now or should we revert this patch before 2.6.30 is out? Cheers, Christoph -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org