From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933078AbYBTQ6o (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:58:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755522AbYBTQ6b (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:58:31 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:59792 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755603AbYBTQ63 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:58:29 -0500 Message-ID: <47BC5C99.3010008@firstfloor.org> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:00:09 +0100 From: Andi Kleen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com CC: John Stoffel , Jan Engelhardt , akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document huge memory/cache overhead of memory controller in Kconfig References: <20080220122338.GA4352@basil.nowhere.org> <47BC2275.4060900@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <18364.16552.455371.242369@stoffel.org> <47BC4554.10304@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <18364.20755.798295.881259@stoffel.org> <47BC5211.6030102@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <47BC5211.6030102@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > OK, I'll queue a patch and try to explain various terms used by resource management. Don't make it too verbose or nobody will read it. It should be more like a one paragraph abstract on a scientific paper about the linux memory controller. But I think it should include some variant of the warning that was in the original patch in this thread (that could be the second paragraph) -Andi From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <47BC5C99.3010008@firstfloor.org> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:00:09 +0100 From: Andi Kleen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document huge memory/cache overhead of memory controller in Kconfig References: <20080220122338.GA4352@basil.nowhere.org> <47BC2275.4060900@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <18364.16552.455371.242369@stoffel.org> <47BC4554.10304@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <18364.20755.798295.881259@stoffel.org> <47BC5211.6030102@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <47BC5211.6030102@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: John Stoffel , Jan Engelhardt , akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > OK, I'll queue a patch and try to explain various terms used by resource management. Don't make it too verbose or nobody will read it. It should be more like a one paragraph abstract on a scientific paper about the linux memory controller. But I think it should include some variant of the warning that was in the original patch in this thread (that could be the second paragraph) -Andi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org