From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: ye.xingchen@zte.com.cn
Cc: mcgrof@kernel.org, keescook@chromium.org, yzaikin@google.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linmiaohe@huawei.com,
chi.minghao@zte.com.cn, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 1/2] mm: compaction: move compaction sysctl to its own file
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:35:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZBq9uO6wLI1fX1x/@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202303221046286197958@zte.com.cn>
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:46:28AM +0800, ye.xingchen@zte.com.cn wrote:
> From: Minghao Chi <chi.minghao@zte.com.cn>
>
> This moves all compaction sysctls to its own file.
So there's a whole lot of these 'move sysctrls to their own file'
patches, but no actual explanation of why that is desirable. Please
explain why we'd want to split code that is closely related, and now
requires marking symbols non-static just to create a new tiny source
file.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-22 8:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-22 2:46 [PATCH V5 1/2] mm: compaction: move compaction sysctl to its own file ye.xingchen
2023-03-22 8:35 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-03-23 16:19 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-03-23 19:39 ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-03-24 6:24 ` ye xingchen
2023-03-24 18:11 ` Luis Chamberlain
2023-03-27 2:49 ` ye xingchen
2023-03-27 10:27 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-03-27 3:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
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