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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] mm/vmstat.c: possible cleanups
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 20:13:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070706181350.GO3492@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707061048310.30575@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 10:49:02AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
> > - make the needlessly global setup_vmstat() static
> 
> Ok.
> 
> > - #if 0 the unused refresh_vm_stats()
> 
> Hmmm... This may be needed by the cpu idle code to update the vm stats 
> before going idle.

Since 1 year it's making the kernel image larger without having a single 
user.

And if it will one day get a user, removing the #if 0 will be trivial.

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-06 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-05 23:23 [2.6 patch] mm/vmstat.c: possible cleanups Adrian Bunk
2007-07-06 17:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-06 18:13   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-07-06 19:21     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-09 14:57       ` [2.6 patch] mm/vmstat.c: cleanups Adrian Bunk
2007-07-09 15:44         ` Christoph Lameter

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