> Hi Linus,
>
> would it be possible to add the following patch to your tree. I'm trying
> to lessen amount of useless wake-ups in the kernel, and the 'sync_supers'
> thread if one of those kernel threads which wakes up every 5 seconds to
> (mostly) do nothing.
>
> This is still work in progress, but putting the below patch to your tree
> would make life easier at the next merge window. This patch just adds 3
> accessor functions, but no one will use them so fare, so it must be
> harmless. This was suggested by Ted and supported by Al:
>
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/9/216
