Re: [PATCH] deprecate use of bdflush()

From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Date: Thu Dec 05 2002 - 12:39:10 EST

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On 4 Dec 2002, Robert Love wrote:

> 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.

It's not *gone* it's just moved into the kernel...
F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
1 0 5 1 15 0 0 0 bdflus SW ? 0:00 [bdflush]

Clearly it doesn't need the syscall interface, so as long as there's a way
to tune useful parameters the interface isn't needed. Don't know why I
thought I was doing stuff using that.

-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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