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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:10:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040107201056.GE18208@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040107192732.GA13240@gaz.sfgoth.com>

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:27:33AM -0800, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > When I merge
> > CONFIG_BLOCK, it'll be more generally useful.
> 
> Maybe it would make more sense to have CONFIG_MEMPOOL=n just remove
> the mempool API entirely and have it imply CONFIG_BLOCK=n, CONFIG_NFS_FS=n,
> and CONFIG_NFSD=n?  Just a thought.

NFS is a good example of why the guarantees of mempool are being
overstated - it still needs to allocate SKBs to make progress and
preallocating a pool for other data structures can make that fail
where it otherwise might not. The pool size for NFS (32) is also
completely arbitrary as far as I can tell.

> It seems like a reasonalbe thing to omit for some tiny configs that don't
> need it, but if the API is provided it should probably work as expected.

The API _does_ work. It was a best effort with buffering before, it's
a best effort without buffering now.

-- 
Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : Linux development and consulting

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-07 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-06  5:48 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Matt Mackall
2004-01-06  6:33 ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Nick Piggin
2004-01-06  6:46   ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Matt Mackall
2004-01-06  7:08     ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Nick Piggin
2004-01-10  0:46       ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Adrian Bunk
2004-01-10  0:50         ` [0/4] better i386 CPU selection Adrian Bunk
2004-01-10  0:52         ` [1/4] " Adrian Bunk
2004-01-10 11:04           ` Wichert Akkerman
2004-01-11  3:13             ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-14 20:49               ` [-mm patch] " Adrian Bunk
2004-01-16 19:15           ` [1/4] " cliff white
2004-01-16 19:32             ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-01-17  0:01               ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-17  2:57                 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-19 15:14                   ` John Stoffel
2004-01-19 23:42                     ` Nick Piggin
2004-01-17  2:15               ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-17  9:13                 ` Robert Schwebel
2004-01-20 22:10                   ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-20 22:31                     ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-01-20 22:47                     ` George Anzinger
2004-01-17 10:01                 ` aeriksson
2004-01-10  0:57         ` [2/4] move "struct movsl_mask movsl_mask" to usercopy.c Adrian Bunk
2004-01-10  0:57         ` [3/4] proof of concept: make arch/i386/kernel/cpu/Makefile CPU specific Adrian Bunk
2004-01-10  0:58         ` [4/4] proof of concept: make arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/Makefile " Adrian Bunk
2004-01-10 22:14         ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Matt Mackall
2004-01-12  2:20           ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Nick Piggin
2004-01-07 14:06 ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 18:50   ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Matt Mackall
2004-01-07 19:27     ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Mitchell Blank Jr
2004-01-07 20:10       ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2004-01-07 21:41         ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Trond Myklebust
2004-01-07 21:10     ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Jens Axboe
2004-01-07 21:30       ` 2.6.1-rc1-tiny2 Matt Mackall

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