From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Mon, 12 May 2008 22:50:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m4D5oMvD024105 for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 22:50:23 -0700 Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 50AEE16A721D for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 22:51:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (smtp5-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.35]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id VzernGI891CuPGmH for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 22:51:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 07:51:07 +0200 From: FD Cami Subject: Re: Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2) Message-ID: <20080513075107.2edc44d3@olorin> In-Reply-To: <48292742.8090409@sgi.com> References: <4828CAC6.3090402@unixsol.org> <48292742.8090409@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Donald Douwsma Cc: Georgi Chorbadzhiyski , xfs@oss.sgi.com, jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, cluster-devel@redhat.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , volkerdi@slackware.com On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:29:38 +1000 Donald Douwsma wrote: > Georgi Chorbadzhiyski wrote: > > Hi guys, I know that not all kernel thread users are converted to > > start only when needed but the following is little annoying specially > > when I'm not even using jfs, xfs and gfs2. > > > > Look at the ps output from a standard distro 2.6.24.5 kernel after a > > fresh boot: > ... > > > > > Kernel config can be found here: > > http://mirrors.unixsol.org/slackware/slackware-12.1/kernels/hugesmp.s/config > > > > Your distro is building all of these modules into the kernel. > CONFIG_XFS_FS=y > CONFIG_JFS_FS=y > CONFIG_GFS2_FS=y > > This isnt exactly standard practice, normally they'd be set to =m and only > used if required to mount a filesystem. You may want to ask the slackware > people why they chose to do this for their hugexxx.s kernels. To be able to use those filesystems on root partitions without requiring an initrd. Georgi might be interested to use the generic kernel instead of the huge one, it is available there : http://mirrors.unixsol.org/slackware/slackware-12.1/slackware/a/kernel-generic-smp-2.6.24.5_smp-i686-2.tgz Documentation : http://mirrors.unixsol.org/slackware/slackware-12.1/README.TXT http://mirrors.unixsol.org/slackware/slackware-12.1/README.initrd http://mirrors.unixsol.org/slackware/slackware-12.1/RELEASE_NOTES Cheers Francois