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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
	Ulrich Mueller <ulm@kph.uni-mainz.de>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ]  VMSPLIT config options (with default config fixed)
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:36:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060204103601.GA5010@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E3DB99.9020604@rtr.ca>

On Fri, Feb 03 2006, Mark Lord wrote:
> >Maybe something like:
> >        config VMSPLIT_1G
> >                bool "1G/3G user/kernel split"
> >        config VMSPLIT_X
> >                bool "Manual split"
> >endchoice
> ...
> 
> Yes, that looks like a good idea.

Sounds like a huge mess to me. The manual kernel buffer size
configuration was bad enough, and this is much trickier. People have
enough problems even understanding what the option does, lets please
leave it as is with a few select options.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-04 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-10 12:58 2G memory split Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 13:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-10 13:37   ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 13:43     ` Byron Stanoszek
2006-01-10 13:47       ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 14:39       ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 14:44         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-10 15:03           ` [PATCH] Address space split configuration Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 15:11             ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 15:24             ` Mikael Pettersson
2006-01-10 16:14         ` 2G memory split Linus Torvalds
2006-01-10 16:40           ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 16:52             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-10 18:33               ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2006-01-10 17:07           ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 17:28             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-10 17:32             ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 17:37               ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 18:58                 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 19:16                   ` [PATCH ] VMSPLIT config options (with default config fixed) Mark Lord
2006-01-10 17:37                     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 19:27                     ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-11  1:13                     ` J.A. Magallon
2006-01-11 10:15                       ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-11 16:00                     ` Greg Norris
2006-01-11 17:13                       ` Mark Lord
2006-01-11 17:44                         ` Greg Norris
2006-02-05 18:42                         ` Barry K. Nathan
2006-02-01 22:23                     ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-02-02 11:04                       ` Ulrich Mueller
2006-02-02 20:55                         ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-03 22:39                           ` Mark Lord
2006-02-04 10:23                             ` Ulrich Mueller
2006-02-04 11:06                               ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-04 10:36                             ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-02-04 11:05                             ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-04 13:57                               ` Mark Lord
2006-02-05 15:32                                 ` J.A. Magallon
2006-02-05 15:38                               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-05 21:14                                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-05 21:19                                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-06 14:56                                     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-07  0:41                                       ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-02-07  2:51                                         ` Mark Rustad
2006-02-07  9:38                                         ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-02-07 12:19                                           ` RFC: add an ADVANCED_USER option Adrian Bunk
2006-02-07 14:05                                             ` Ulrich Mueller
2006-02-07 14:42                                               ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-09 16:06                                                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-10 17:48             ` 2G memory split Bernd Eckenfels
2006-01-10 16:30               ` [PATCH] " Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 18:50                 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-01-10 17:13                   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 19:42               ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 20:17                 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-01-10 20:28                   ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-11  8:39                     ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-01-11 10:06                       ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 18:14           ` Martin Bligh
2006-01-10 18:34             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-10 16:56               ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 17:01                 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 18:45                 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 18:46                 ` Martin Bligh
2006-01-10 18:58                 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 17:17                   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 20:55                 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-10 19:12                   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 21:02                     ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 19:30                       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-10 18:39               ` Martin Bligh
2006-01-10 18:55               ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-10 19:01                 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 19:05                   ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-10 17:07         ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-04-10 14:11           ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-04-10 14:39             ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 18:28         ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2006-01-10 13:47 ` Mikael Pettersson
2006-01-10 13:54   ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 14:09     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-01-10 14:21       ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 14:25       ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 20:42   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-11  0:25     ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-10 14:12 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-10 14:22   ` Jens Axboe
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2006-02-05 20:20                             ` [PATCH ] VMSPLIT config options (with default config fixed) Bodo Eggert
2006-02-05 22:13                               ` Jeff Dike

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