Re: sysctl for bdflush

Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:30:24 +0100


On 23 Feb 96 at 1:32, Tom Dyas wrote:

> This little patch against 1.3.68 adds a sysctl entry for those
> wonderful bdflush parameters. The patch does checking against the min
> and max values and acts accordingly.

Isn't that already possible (if I remember "man update" correctly)?

>
> --- ./fs/buffer.c- Thu Feb 22 22:18:54 1996
> +++ ./fs/buffer.c Thu Feb 22 23:25:12 1996
> @@ -72,13 +72,16 @@
> int nr_buffer_heads = 0;
> extern int *blksize_size[];
>
> -/* Here is the parameter block for the bdflush process. */
> +/* Here is the parameter block for the bdflush process. If you add or
> + * remove any of the parameters, make sure to update kernel/sysctl.c.
> + */
> +
[... rest deleted]

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