On Mar 21, 2007, at 19:11:40, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:01:32 -0700 Randy Dunlap
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I prefer the fixed-point values for pressure and dirty* to having
duplicated entries for each of them. I'll proceed with that idea.
Problem is, if a read of /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio is changed to
return 7.457 then existing userspace might get confused.
This might be acceptable if we are careful to ensure that reads of /
proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio will always return an integer if it was
previously initialised with an integer.
What about instead adding support for fractions (IE: "1/1000") in /
proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio? If the denominator is 100, the default,
then it prints in the form "$NUMERATOR", otherwise it prints answers
of the form "$NUMERATOR/$DENOMINATOR". Input could be of either
form, with the kernel auto-setting the denominator to 100 if none is
specified.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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