From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261742AbUD3WlP (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:41:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261756AbUD3WlP (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:41:15 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:45794 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261742AbUD3WkW (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:40:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:42:46 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: FabF Cc: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Badari Pulavarty Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.6-rc3-mm1] Add maxthinktime to sysfs Message-Id: <20040430154246.2019f9ec.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1083364002.6303.9.camel@bluerhyme.real3> References: <1083364002.6303.9.camel@bluerhyme.real3> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org FabF wrote: > > Here's a patch to add the asio maxthinktime to sysfs. Why? Have you measured any benefit from varying it, and if so, what was the result? Badari, did you find any need to vary this in the AS tuning work which you were doing? (What happened to that, btw?) If we're going to expose this tunable to users it needs to be documented in as-iosched.txt