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Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:00:06 +1000
To: bart@xxxxxxxxx, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
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From: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] Update laptop mode control script with XFS_HZ=100
Hi guys,
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 03:40:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> bart@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > The laptop mode control script incorrectly guesses XFS_HZ=1000.
I thought you switched the laptop mode XFS patches to USER_HZ to
avoid this issue Bart?
> aargh. XFS is broken. It shouldn't be exposing jiffy-based tunables into
> /proc, or `mount -o remount' or whatever.
>
> It would be much better to rework XFS so that these user-visible tunables
> are in units of milliseconds, centiseconds or whatever.
>
> Is this possible, please?
Shouldn't be a big deal to switch (and certainly more user friendly).
What's the right way to convert milli/centiseconds into jiffies for
subsequent use in time_before()/schedule_timeout()?
> If so, please make the /proc filename reflect the tunable's units:
>
> /proc/sys/fs/xfs/lm_sync_centisecs
> /proc/sys/fs/xfs/age_buffer_centisecs
> etc.
cheers.
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Nathan
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