From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr>, Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit mode
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 17:26:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160513152636.GV20141@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160513161104.330ab3d6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Fri 13-05-16 16:11:04, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > It seems important to point out that Sebastian's patch does NOT change
> > the default behavior. It merely creates a knob allowing one to override
> > the default via Kconfig.
> >
> > +choice
> > + prompt "Overcommit Mode"
> > + default OVERCOMMIT_GUESS
> > + depends on EXPERT
>
> Which is still completely pointless given that its a single sysctl value
> set at early userspace time and most distributions ship with things like
> sysctl and /etc/sysctl.conf
>
> We have a million other such knobs, putting them in kconfig just gets
> silly.
Exactly my point from the very begining. Thanks for being so direct
here.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-13 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-10 11:56 Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 8:04 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 8:44 ` Mason
2016-05-13 9:52 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 10:18 ` Mason
2016-05-13 10:42 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 11:44 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 12:15 ` Mason
2016-05-13 14:01 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 14:15 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:04 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-13 15:37 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:43 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-17 8:24 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-17 8:57 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-17 16:16 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-17 17:29 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-18 15:19 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-18 16:28 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-17 20:16 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-18 15:18 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-19 7:14 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 17:01 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 13:27 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 9:52 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 12:00 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 12:39 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 13:11 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 13:32 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 13:51 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 14:35 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 14:54 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 15:15 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 13:34 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 14:14 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 14:23 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:02 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-05-13 15:01 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-13 15:15 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:25 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 14:51 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-13 14:59 ` Mason
2016-05-13 15:11 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-13 15:26 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2016-05-13 15:32 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:10 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-13 15:41 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-05-23 13:11 ` Sebastian Frias
2016-05-17 9:03 ` Mason
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