Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964820AbWBGJp1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 04:45:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964824AbWBGJp1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 04:45:27 -0500 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:21902 "EHLO ns.firmix.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964820AbWBGJp0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 04:45:26 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH ] VMSPLIT config options (with default config fixed) From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Herbert Poetzl Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Arjan van de Ven , Mark Lord , Ulrich Mueller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , Linus Torvalds , Byron Stanoszek , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20060207004147.GA21620@MAIL.13thfloor.at> References: <43C40803.2000106@rtr.ca> <20060201222314.GA26081@MAIL.13thfloor.at> <43E3DB99.9020604@rtr.ca> <1139153913.3131.42.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1139174355.3131.50.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060207004147.GA21620@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Firmix Software GmbH Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:38:05 +0100 Message-Id: <1139305085.13091.17.camel@tara.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1342 Lines: 34 On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 01:41 +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 03:56:34PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: [...] > > > > So, just as I did in the sample patch, the manual split shall depend on > > EMBEDDED. Those who run fat databases with big malloc/mmap assumptions > > don't probably belong to the group using CONFIG_EMBEDDED. > > *sigh* well, the embeded folks are unlikely to have 1-3GB ACK. But don't be confused by the naming: CONFIG_EMBEDDED nowadays means "options for people who know really what they do". It came originally from the embedded world but applies now also to others. No one has come up with a better option name up to now ... > why not use EXPERIMENTAL if you 'think' the option will > hurt the database folks who do not know to configure their > kernel ... EXPERIMENTAL means (at least for me) "this may not really work" and is IMHO orthogonal to CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services - 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/