On 7 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote:

Anyway, I would than suggest to introduce another /proc entry and call
it appropriately: max_async_pages. Because that is what we care about,
anyway. I'll send another patch.

Anton Blanchard already did a patch for this. Sent to the list
on Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:15:54 +1100 subject:
[PATCH]: sysctl to tune async and sync bdflush triggers

I don't recall seeing any responses to that patch, but it seems
to do exactly what you describe.

regards,

Davej.

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