From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Daniel Kobras <kobras@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] deprecate use of bdflush()
Date: 04 Dec 2002 11:12:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1039018361.1505.7.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021204131024.GA3428@neljae>
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 08:10, Daniel Kobras wrote:
> > Bdflush the user-space daemon went away a long time ago, ~1995.
>
> sys_bdflush() is still usable in 2.4 to tune kupdated's parameters.
> Only func==1 functionality is long gone.
Right. But the bdflush daemon was gone in 2.4.
> > Besides, you only see the message once for each daemon that is loaded.
> > So regardless of the rate limiting you probably only see it once on
> > boot.
>
> And each time you try to twist the flushing parameters.
There are no flushing parameters in 2.5, and this is a patch for 2.5.
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-04 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-02 21:21 [PATCH] deprecate use of bdflush() Robert Love
2002-12-02 22:11 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-02 22:26 ` Robert Love
2002-12-03 14:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-12-03 17:10 ` Robert Love
2002-12-03 19:05 ` Paul Gortmaker
2002-12-04 1:12 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2002-12-04 16:11 ` Robert Love
2002-12-04 13:10 ` Daniel Kobras
2002-12-04 16:12 ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-12-04 19:29 ` Daniel Kobras
2002-12-05 17:39 ` Bill Davidsen
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