Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter W Morreale <> | Subject | [PATCH 0/2] fix pdflush races and enhancement v2 | Date | Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:10:09 -0700 |
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Update of pdflush series, changes since last post:
o Change upper bound patch to include update of last_empty_jifs to throttle thread creation to one per second.
o Change new sysctls to use CTL_UNNUMBERED per Andrew Morton
o Use proc_dointvec_minmax and tie bounds of min and max threads to the current min/max. Otherwise the possible combinations of actual threads makes my head hurt.
o Update Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt with the new entries
Peter W Morreale (2): Add /proc controls for pdflush threads Fix pdflush thread creation upper bound.
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/writeback.h | 2 ++ kernel/sysctl.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++-- mm/pdflush.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 4 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
Best, -PWM
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