Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:31:53 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] make I/O schedulers non-modular
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On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 05:21:07PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 25 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > There isn't any big advantage and doesn't seem to be much usage of 
> > modular schedulers.
> > 
> > OTOH, the overhead made the kernel image of an x86 defconfig (that 
> > doesn't use modular schedulers) bigger by nearly 2 kB.
> 
> Big nack, I use it all the time for testing.

OK.

> Just because you don't
> happen to use it is not a reason to remove it.

s/you/you and all distributions you checked/

> Jens Axboe

cu
Adrian

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