Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755846AbYH1R1p (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:27:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753444AbYH1R1f (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:27:35 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:55080 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753247AbYH1R1e (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:27:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:26:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Steven Rostedt cc: Nick Piggin , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , LKML , Stefani Seibold , Dario Faggioli , Max Krasnyansky , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] sched: disabled rt-bandwidth by default In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20080819103301.787700742@chello.nl> <200808290036.35817.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <200808290134.35093.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1256 Lines: 30 On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > I've always thought that the policy settings belong in the distro, and the > kernel should never enforce a policy (by setting this as default, it is > enforcing a policy, even though an RT user can change it). The kernel has always done a certain amount of "default policy". What do you think things like "swappiness" etc are? Or things like oevrcommit settings? They're all policies, and there is always a default one. So in that sense the kernel always has - and fundamentally _must_ - set some kind of policy. And the default policy should generally be the one that makes sense for most people. Quite frankly, if it's an issue where all normal distros would basically be expected to set a value, then that value should _be_ the default policy, and none of the normal distros should ever need to worry. Whether this case is one such, I dunno. Quite frankly, I don't think it's even _nearly_ important enough to get this kind of noise. Linus -- 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/