Re: [PATCH 6/9] writeback: allow sleepy exit of default writebacktask

[Jens Axboe]

On Wed, Aug 05 2009, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 30-07-09 23:24:01, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Since we do lazy create of default writeback tasks for a bdi, we can
> > allow sleepy exit if it has been completely idle for 5 minutes.
>   Maybe there should be a sysfs tunable to this?

Not sure, and when in doubt I prefer not to do that. But we could easily
add one, if people think it will be useful. What would the reason for
turning it off be?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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