From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f71.google.com (mail-wm0-f71.google.com [74.125.82.71]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D11E6B0261 for ; Fri, 13 May 2016 11:26:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wm0-f71.google.com with SMTP id e201so11742965wme.1 for ; Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-wm0-f66.google.com (mail-wm0-f66.google.com. [74.125.82.66]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id yd10si7609595wjc.152.2016.05.13.08.26.38 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wm0-f66.google.com with SMTP id n129so4373856wmn.1 for ; Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 17:26:36 +0200 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit mode Message-ID: <20160513152636.GV20141@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <5731CC6E.3080807@laposte.net> <20160513080458.GF20141@dhcp22.suse.cz> <573593EE.6010502@free.fr> <5735A3DE.9030100@laposte.net> <20160513120042.GK20141@dhcp22.suse.cz> <5735CAE5.5010104@laposte.net> <20160513145101.GS20141@dhcp22.suse.cz> <5735EBBC.6050705@free.fr> <20160513161104.330ab3d6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160513161104.330ab3d6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: One Thousand Gnomes Cc: Mason , Sebastian Frias , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , LKML 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. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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