From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69B045F0001 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:29:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:30:18 +0200 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [patch 5/5] mm: prompt slqb default for oldconfig Message-ID: <20090416093018.GA32569@wotan.suse.de> References: <20090414164439.GA14873@wotan.suse.de> <20090414165058.GE14873@wotan.suse.de> <1239872109.15377.7.camel@penberg-laptop> <20090416092238.GL9813@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090416092238.GL9813@elte.hu> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Pekka Enberg , Linux Memory Management List List-ID: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:22:38AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > Hi Nick, > > > > On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 18:50 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > Hi Pekka, > > > > > > Well there have been reasonably significant changes both for SLQB and > > > SLUB that I thought it is better to wait one more round before merging > > > SLQB. Also, SLQB may not have been getting as much testing as it could > > > have in -next, due to oldconfig choosing existing config as the default. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Nick > > > -- > > > > > > Change Kconfig names for slab allocator choices to prod SLQB into being > > > the default. Hopefully increasing testing base. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin > > > > I went ahead and applied this too. IIRC, Ingo had some ideas how > > this should be handled so lets CC him as well. > > I forgot it all already :) I think I roughly followed consensus. Basically just rename the choices so oldconfig will default to Kconfig specified rather than the existing .config choice. We can just revert this little shim eventually. > Btw., i'm wondering, why didnt this make it into .30? Well, there was a flurry of activity on SLUB, and also one relatively significant change to SLQB, so in the interest of getting a more uptodate comparison, I think it better to wait one more round. -- 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