From: Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>,
"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2)
Date: 01 Apr 2003 21:57:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1049227067.11985.5.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304012020290.1253-100000@localhost.localdomain>
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Am Die, 2003-04-01 um 21.25 schrieb Hugh Dickins:
> Simply because quite a lot of the tmpfs code is concerned with moving
> pages between ram and swap: if you've limited ram and no swap, you may
> not want to waste your ram on that code! One day I might try applying
> #ifdef CONFIG_SWAPs within mm/shmem.c; but I might well not, it could
> get ugly, and looks rudimentary elsewhere - do we intend to get serious
> about CONFIG_SWAP?
It would be more waste to have both ramfs and tmpfs in compiled form
since the whole system is intended to run on embedded systems with CF as
well as on faster machines with harddrive and swap.
--
Servus,
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-01 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-01 14:22 PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2) Mikael Starvik
2003-04-01 16:24 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-01 18:26 ` Daniel Egger
2003-04-01 19:25 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 19:57 ` Daniel Egger [this message]
2003-04-02 7:13 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-02 7:55 ` Hua Zhong
2003-04-02 10:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03 2:49 ` Robert White
2003-04-03 2:54 ` Hua Zhong
[not found] <fa.eagpkml.m3elbd@ifi.uio.no>
2003-04-01 13:38 ` Ed Tomlinson
2003-04-01 14:17 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 14:18 ` CaT
2003-04-01 16:27 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-01 16:45 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-02 7:20 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-02 8:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-02 14:44 ` CaT
2003-04-02 17:33 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-02 20:44 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-02 21:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03 7:44 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-07 8:32 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-07 11:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-07 11:59 ` Christoph Rohland
2003-04-04 11:31 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-04-03 5:35 ` CaT
2003-04-03 10:42 ` CaT
2003-04-02 10:04 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-03 2:54 ` Robert White
2003-04-03 8:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-03 20:55 ` Robert White
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2003-04-01 8:10 CaT
2003-04-01 10:59 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-04-01 11:11 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 14:23 ` CaT
2003-04-01 14:43 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-04-01 14:54 ` CaT
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