Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758039AbaDIBci (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:32:38 -0400 Received: from e23smtp08.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.141]:49597 "EHLO e23smtp08.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756355AbaDIBch (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Apr 2014 21:32:37 -0400 Message-ID: <5344A312.80802@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 07:02:02 +0530 From: Madhavan Srinivasan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Hansen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org CC: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, akpm@linux-foundation.org, riel@redhat.com, mgorman@suse.de, ak@linux.intel.com, peterz@infradead.org, mingo@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] mm: move FAULT_AROUND_ORDER to arch/ References: <1396592835-24767-1-git-send-email-maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1396592835-24767-2-git-send-email-maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <533EDB63.8090909@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <533EDB63.8090909@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 14040901-5140-0000-0000-000004DD8D83 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 04 April 2014 09:48 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 04/03/2014 11:27 PM, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote: >> This patch creates infrastructure to move the FAULT_AROUND_ORDER >> to arch/ using Kconfig. This will enable architecture maintainers >> to decide on suitable FAULT_AROUND_ORDER value based on >> performance data for that architecture. Patch also adds >> FAULT_AROUND_ORDER Kconfig element in arch/X86. > > Please don't do it this way. > > In mm/Kconfig, put > > config FAULT_AROUND_ORDER > int > default 1234 if POWERPC > default 4 > > The way you have it now, every single architecture that needs to enable > this has to go put that in their Kconfig. That's madness. This way, I though about it and decided not to do this way because, in future, sub platforms of the architecture may decide to change the values. Also, adding an if line for each architecture with different sub platforms oring to it will look messy. With regards Maddy > you only put it in one place, and folks only have to care if they want > to change the default to be something other than 4. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/