On 10/2/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 01:31 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:17:05 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 14:22 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > nfs-remove-congestion_end.patch > > > > lib-percpu_counter_add.patch > > > > lib-percpu_counter_sub.patch > > > > lib-percpu_counter-variable-batch.patch > > > > lib-make-percpu_counter_add-take-s64.patch > > > > lib-percpu_counter_set.patch > > > > lib-percpu_counter_sum_positive.patch > > > > lib-percpu_count_sum.patch > > > > lib-percpu_counter_init-error-handling.patch > > > > lib-percpu_counter_init_irq.patch > > > > mm-bdi-init-hooks.patch > > > > mm-scalable-bdi-statistics-counters.patch > > > > mm-count-reclaimable-pages-per-bdi.patch > > > > mm-count-writeback-pages-per-bdi.patch > > > > > > This one: > > > > mm-expose-bdi-statistics-in-sysfs.patch > > > > > > > lib-floating-proportions.patch > > > > mm-per-device-dirty-threshold.patch > > > > mm-per-device-dirty-threshold-warning-fix.patch > > > > mm-per-device-dirty-threshold-fix.patch > > > > mm-dirty-balancing-for-tasks.patch > > > > mm-dirty-balancing-for-tasks-warning-fix.patch > > > > > > And, this one: > > > > debug-sysfs-files-for-the-current-ratio-size-total.patch > > > > > > > > > I'm not sure polluting /sys/block/<foo>/queue/ like that is The Right > > > Thing. > > > > hm, I suppose not. It leaves nowhere for nfs, for a start. > > > > > These patches sure were handy when debugging this, but not sure > > > they want to move to maineline. > > > > > > Maybe we want /sys/bdi/<foo>/ or maybe /debug/bdi/<foo>/ > > > > > > > If you think we'll need this stuff for support/debug during 2.6.24-rcX then > > sure - we can always take it out prior to 2.6.24-final. > > > > otoh, if we're going to take that approach we might as well leave things in > > /sys/block/<foo>/queue. > > People seem to have tested the code in various demanding scenarios (both > -mm and the back-port to .22), so I'm fairly confident that this part > works well (famous last words,.. I know I'll regret having said this). > > Also the NFS issue bothers me to no end. > > I'll try and come up with a /sys/bdi/<foo> thing. SLUB should have some > sysfs code I can copy from - last time I looked at doing sysfs I just > gave up. God awful mess that is.
What would be the point in another top-level tree for device information? All devices you are exporting information for, are already in the sysfs tree, right? Thanks, Kay - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
