Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU move into EMBEDDED submenu

Minchan Kim
2009-05-13T11:40:43Z

Hi, Andi.

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
>> In past days, I proposed this. but Minchan found this config bloat kernel 7kb
>> and he claim embedded guys should have selectable chance. I agreed it.
>
> Well there's lots of code in the kernel and 7k doesn't seem worth bothering.
> If you just save two pages of memory somewhere you can save more.
>
>> Is this enough explanation?
>
> It's not a very good one.
>
> I would propose to just remove it or at least hide it completely
> and only make it dependent on CONFIG_MMU inside Kconfig.

I thought this feature don't have a big impact on embedded.
At First, 7K is not important but as time goes by, it could be huge
with very small size feature for server or desktop.

So I wanted to add it with optionally. :)

In future, embedded also have a big ram then we can remove optional
config completely, I think.

> -Andi
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