Re: [PATCH] laptop mode, #2

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Sat, 17 May 2003 10:16:58 +0200


On Fri, May 16 2003, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Made a few tweaks and adjustments:
> >
> > - If block_dump is set, also dump who is marking a page/buffer as dirty.
> > akpm recommended this.
> >
> > - Don't touch default bdflush parameters (see script)
> >
> > That's about it. I've gotten several mails who really like the patch and
> > that it really adds a non-significant amount of extra battery
> > time. I
>
> Non-significant? Like it adds no time at all?

Woops, that was reversed :)

> > consider the patch final at this point.
> >
> > Patch is against 2.4.21-rc2 (ish)
>
> It looks nice, but without Documentation/laptop_mode, I can't say much
> more ;-)))).

The attached script basically explained everything, but yes I will add a
laptop_mode file as well.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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