From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 14:46:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 14:46:25 -0500 Received: from B583e.pppool.de ([213.7.88.62]:49568 "EHLO nicole.de.interearth.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 14:46:24 -0500 Subject: Re: PATCH: allow percentile size of tmpfs (2.5.66 / 2.4.20-pre2) From: Daniel Egger To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Christoph Rohland , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-8HbHInCRAP8OPoYPYfJc" Organization: Message-Id: <1049227067.11985.5.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.3 Date: 01 Apr 2003 21:57:48 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-8HbHInCRAP8OPoYPYfJc Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Servus, Daniel --=-8HbHInCRAP8OPoYPYfJc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+ie87chlzsq9KoIYRAneEAJ4q74+mL3ZgSkYzIGOJjW22gMsVAQCgw70T vdqvs/8b7zPjVsU9lSjzEWU= =rb0b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-8HbHInCRAP8OPoYPYfJc--