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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