Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759598AbYBUXzx (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:55:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935353AbYBUXzZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:55:25 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:36697 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964848AbYBUXzV (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:55:21 -0500 Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:55:27 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Balbir Singh , John Stoffel , Andi Kleen , akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document huge memory/cache overhead of memory controller in Kconfig Message-ID: <20080221235527.GD25977@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20080220122338.GA4352@basil.nowhere.org> <47BC2275.4060900@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <18364.16552.455371.242369@stoffel.org> <47BC4554.10304@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20080220181911.GA4760@ucw.cz> <20080220185104.GA30416@elf.ucw.cz> <2f11576a0802210646u77409690me940717fac746315@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2f11576a0802210646u77409690me940717fac746315@mail.gmail.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1322 Lines: 38 Hi! > > > >> For ordinary desktop people, memory controller is what developers > > > >> know as MMU or sometimes even some other mysterious piece of silicon > > > >> inside the heavy box. > > > > > > > >Actually I'd guess 'memory controller' == 'DRAM controller' == part of > > > >northbridge that talks to DRAM. > > > > > > Yeah that must have been it when Windows says it found a new controller > > > after changing the mainboard underneath. > > > > Just for fun... this option really has to be renamed: > > I think one reason of many people easy confusion is caused by bad menu > hierarchy. > I popose mem-cgroup move to child of cgroup and resource counter > (= obey denend on). > +config CGROUP_MEM_CONT > + bool "Memory controller for cgroups" Memory _resource_ controller for cgroups? > + depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS > + help > + Provides a memory controller that manages both page cache and Same here. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/