Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:14:55 +0100
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] tune vmalloc size
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:40:47AM -0400, Joe Korty wrote:

 > > boot time settable is 100x better than only compile time settable imo :)
 > 
 > IMO, everything that is changable at boot time needs an equivalent way
 > of changing the default without specifying a boot time value.
 > 
 > boot time values works well only when the number of values that need
 > changing is small.

Most users will never need to change this /at all/, at boot time,
or compile time. Its a corner case for certain hardware configurations.
That fits into 'small number of values' afaics.

		Dave

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