On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 05:28:34 +0900
YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp> wrote:

> i don't think having these sysctls is a good idea.
> if we should have these knobs, they should be per-bufq.
> and, IMO, they should be a part of DIOCGSTRATEGY/DIOCSSTRATEGY.
> dks_param/dks_paramlen in struct disk_strategy was intended for
> this kind of feature.
> (ie. pass a string like "read_burst=512, write_req=64".
> i think having an option string parser in kernel is not so wasteful,
> as far as it can be used for others like mount(2).)

You are right... I'll try again.

Best regards.