From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759895AbZEMOfr (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 10:35:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754602AbZEMOfh (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 10:35:37 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([66.93.16.53]:56838 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753507AbZEMOfg (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 10:35:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 09:34:00 -0500 From: Matt Mackall To: David Woodhouse Cc: Minchan Kim , KOSAKI Motohiro , LKML , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , Lee Schermerhorn Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU move into EMBEDDED submenu Message-ID: <20090513143400.GC31071@waste.org> References: <20090513172904.7234.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090513175152.1590c117.minchan.kim@barrios-desktop> <20090513175539.723A.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090513191221.674bc543.minchan.kim@barrios-desktop> <1242211037.24436.552.camel@macbook.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1242211037.24436.552.camel@macbook.infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:37:17AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 19:12 +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > > > No. > > > As far as I know, many embedded guys use this configuration. > > > they hate unexpected latency by reclaim. !UNEVICTABLE_LRU increase > > > unexpectability largely. > > > > As I said previous(http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/16/209), Many embedded > > environment have a small ram. It doesn't have a big impact in such > > case. > > > > Let CCed embedded matainers. > > I won't have a objection if embedded maintainers ack this. > > I probably wouldn't be cheerleading for it if you wanted to make it > optional when it wasn't before -- but I suppose we might as well > preserve the option under CONFIG_EMBEDDED if the alternative is to lose > it completely. As the person who introduced CONFIG_EMBEDDED, I've occasionally thought we should rename it to CONFIG_NONSTANDARD to make the semantics clearer. It's less about cell phones and more about going way off the beaten path. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.