From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: unify shmem and tiny-shmem
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:57:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222973846.13453.56.camel@calx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0810011817060.19654@blonde.site>
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 19:39 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On a different but related subject:
> do you think we need to retain the CONFIG_TMPFS option? It's rather
> odd these days, since everybody gets ramfs, and you give them tmpfs
> via ramfs without CONFIG_SHMEM. If anybody wants to cut out the
> TMPFS code overhead these days, wouldn't they be using !CONFIG_SHMEM?
I agree, it's pretty hard to see a situation where you'd want full
swap-backed shm and not full swap-backed tmpfs. I'll spin up a patch to
follow on my unification.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-02 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-30 23:49 [PATCH] mm: unify shmem and tiny-shmem Matt Mackall
2008-10-01 15:00 ` David Howells
2008-10-01 18:39 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-10-02 5:38 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-02 18:57 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2008-10-02 22:23 ` David Howells
2008-10-02 22:44 ` Matt Mackall
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