Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads"

This reverts commit fafd688e4c.

Work is progressing to switch away from pdflush as the process backing
for flushing out dirty data. So it seems pointless to add more knobs
to control pdflush threads. The original author of the patch did not
have any specific use cases for adding the knobs, so we can easily
revert this before 2.6.30 to avoid having to maintain this API
forever.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe
2009-05-15 11:32:24 +02:00
parent 05dc7b6134
commit cd17cbfda0
4 changed files with 12 additions and 72 deletions

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@@ -39,8 +39,6 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
- nr_hugepages
- nr_overcommit_hugepages
- nr_pdflush_threads
- nr_pdflush_threads_min
- nr_pdflush_threads_max
- nr_trim_pages (only if CONFIG_MMU=n)
- numa_zonelist_order
- oom_dump_tasks
@@ -469,32 +467,6 @@ The default value is 0.
==============================================================
nr_pdflush_threads_min
This value controls the minimum number of pdflush threads.
At boot time, the kernel will create and maintain 'nr_pdflush_threads_min'
threads for the kernel's lifetime.
The default value is 2. The minimum value you can specify is 1, and
the maximum value is the current setting of 'nr_pdflush_threads_max'.
See 'nr_pdflush_threads_max' below for more information.
==============================================================
nr_pdflush_threads_max
This value controls the maximum number of pdflush threads that can be
created. The pdflush algorithm will create a new pdflush thread (up to
this maximum) if no pdflush threads have been available for >= 1 second.
The default value is 8. The minimum value you can specify is the
current value of 'nr_pdflush_threads_min' and the
maximum is 1000.
==============================================================
overcommit_memory:
This value contains a flag that enables memory overcommitment.