Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit mode

Michal Hocko
2016-05-13T15:26:40Z

On Fri 13-05-16 16:11:04, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > It seems important to point out that Sebastian's patch does NOT change
> > the default behavior. It merely creates a knob allowing one to override
> > the default via Kconfig.
> >
> > +choice
> > + prompt "Overcommit Mode"
> > + default OVERCOMMIT_GUESS
> > + depends on EXPERT
>
> Which is still completely pointless given that its a single sysctl value
> set at early userspace time and most distributions ship with things like
> sysctl and /etc/sysctl.conf
>
> We have a million other such knobs, putting them in kconfig just gets
> silly.

Exactly my point from the very begining. Thanks for being so direct
here.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs