From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 13:09:11 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make dynamic/run-time configuration of zonelist order configurable Message-Id: <20070530130911.431d5f6f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1180554142.5850.90.camel@localhost> References: <1180468121.5067.64.camel@localhost> <20070530111212.095350d2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1180554142.5850.90.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: linux-mm , Kamezawa Hiroyuki , Nishanth Aravamudan List-ID: On Wed, 30 May 2007 15:42:22 -0400 Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > But, before I go and rework it against the current mm > tree and then rebase the hugetlb fix on that, could you offer an opinion > either way, whether it's worth the effort and a new Kconfig option to > attempt to give back this amount init code/data? I recall you making > noise about the zonelist order patch being "a lot of code" when Kame > first posted it. The concern with a "lot of code" is 99% about complexity, reliability and maintainability and only 1% about RAM usage. This stuff is mainly a NUMA/SMP thing, isn't it? If so, a couple of k is neither here nor there. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org