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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: wierd new config options
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:19:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081023201949.GA29258@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4900D7AE.3010505@redhat.com>

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 03:59:42PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >Why is UNEVICTABLE_LRU and option?  Is there any rason to turn it off or
> >is this just to confuse users?
> 
> Since the swapout code itself is already configurable with
> CONFIG_SWAP, I do believe we want to be able to config out
> the unevictable LRU code.
> 
> I guess it could be argued that maybe CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU
> should just be folded into CONFIG_SWAP...

Sounds like a good plan.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-23 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-23 18:18 wierd new config options Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-23 19:16 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-10-23 19:26   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-23 19:59 ` Rik van Riel
2008-10-23 20:19   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-11-11 10:26 ` Roland McGrath

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