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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: kemi <kemi.wang@intel.com>,
	"Luis R . Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
	Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com>, Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>,
	Proc sysctl <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm, sysctl: make NUMA stats configurable
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 07:53:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb9248f9-1941-57f9-de9e-596b4ead6491@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171010143113.gk6iqcrguefhhlmr@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On 10/10/2017 07:31 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 10-10-17 07:29:31, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> On 10/09/2017 10:49 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>> Anyway I still stand by my position that this sounds over-engineered and
>>> a simple 0/1 resp. on/off interface would be both simpler and safer. If
>>> anybody wants an auto mode it can be added later (as a value 2 resp.
>>> auto).
>>
>> 0/1 with the default set to the strict, slower mode?
> 
> yes, keep the current semantic and allow users who care to disable
> something that stands in the way.

But, let's be honest, this leaves us with an option that nobody is ever
going to turn on.  IOW, nobody except a very small portion of our users
will ever see any benefit from this.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-10 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-28  6:11 [PATCH v3] mm, sysctl: make NUMA stats configurable Kemi Wang
2017-09-28 21:29 ` Andrew Morton
2017-09-29  1:44   ` kemi
2017-09-29  7:09   ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-09-29  7:03 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-10-09  2:20   ` kemi
2017-09-29  7:27 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-10-03  9:23 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-09  6:34   ` kemi
2017-10-09  7:55     ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-10  5:49       ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-10  5:54         ` kemi
2017-10-10 14:29         ` Dave Hansen
2017-10-10 14:31           ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-10 14:53             ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2017-10-10 14:57               ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-10 15:14                 ` Christopher Lameter
2017-10-10 15:39                 ` Dave Hansen
2017-10-10 17:51                   ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-10 21:34                     ` Andrew Morton
2017-10-11  6:16                   ` Vlastimil Babka

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