Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758523AbYJWUUW (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:20:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752590AbYJWUUJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:20:09 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:41880 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752364AbYJWUUH (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:20:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:19:49 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Rik van Riel Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Schermerhorn , Roland McGrath Subject: Re: wierd new config options Message-ID: <20081023201949.GA29258@lst.de> References: <20081023181818.GA25430@lst.de> <4900D7AE.3010505@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4900D7AE.3010505@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Score: 0 () Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 734 Lines: 19 On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 03:59:42PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >Why is UNEVICTABLE_LRU and option? Is there any rason to turn it off or > >is this just to confuse users? > > Since the swapout code itself is already configurable with > CONFIG_SWAP, I do believe we want to be able to config out > the unevictable LRU code. > > I guess it could be argued that maybe CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU > should just be folded into CONFIG_SWAP... Sounds like a good plan. -- 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/