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

Minchan Kim
2009-05-13T11:13:59Z

On Wed, 13 May 2009 11:37:17 +0100
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 19:12 +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > > No.
> > > As far as I know, many embedded guys use this configuration.
> > > they hate unexpected latency by reclaim. !UNEVICTABLE_LRU increase
> > > unexpectability largely.
> >
> > As I said previous(http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/16/209), Many embedded
> > environment have a small ram. It doesn't have a big impact in such
> > case.
> >
> > Let CCed embedded matainers.
> > I won't have a objection if embedded maintainers ack this.
>
> I probably wouldn't be cheerleading for it if you wanted to make it
> optional when it wasn't before -- but I suppose we might as well
> preserve the option under CONFIG_EMBEDDED if the alternative is to lose
> it completely.

Thanks for good commeting.
If embedded maintainer don't have an obejction, me, too. :)

But Let's add following comment like CONFIG_AIO.

"Disabling this option saves about 7k"

>
> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
>
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>

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Kinds Regards
Minchan Kim