Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261474AbUFJO5F (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:57:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261426AbUFJO4y (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:56:54 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:6797 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261563AbUFJOzO (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:55:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:55:08 +0100 From: Alasdair G Kergon To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2/5: Device-mapper: kcopyd Message-ID: <20040610145508.GD6302@agk.surrey.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Alasdair G Kergon , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040602154129.GO6302@agk.surrey.redhat.com> <20040609231805.029672aa.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040609231805.029672aa.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 611 Lines: 16 On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:18:05PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > This pins at least 2MB of RAM up-front, even if devicemapper is not in use. > Have you any plans to fix that up? kcopyd used to create/destroy itself so it was only present while it was being used. Nobody can remember why that got changed so we'll try reimplementing it. Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com - 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/