Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264476AbTEPQYe (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 12:24:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264485AbTEPQYe (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 12:24:34 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:11686 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264476AbTEPQYe (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 12:24:34 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.5.69-mm6 From: Alan Cox To: bert hubert Cc: Andrew Morton , ch@murgatroid.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030516100432.GA21627@outpost.ds9a.nl> References: <20030516015407.2768b570.akpm@digeo.com> <20030516100432.GA21627@outpost.ds9a.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1053099462.5599.1.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 16 May 2003 16:37:43 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 901 Lines: 19 On Gwe, 2003-05-16 at 11:04, bert hubert wrote: > Please don't! For the same reason as the futexes, turning this off will > randombly break stuff and on a pc it won't give any benefit. > > I'd vote for treating this patch just like the futexes one, making sure that > those who know *how* can turn epoll off, but leave it out of make config. > > Furthermore, I wonder if this patch is a large savings, the bulk of epoll is > infrastructure, not the few syscalls. All of this stuff should be disablable and far more. It probably all wants hiding under a single "Shrink feature set" type option most people can skip over as they do with kernel debugging. - 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/