From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <47BC5C17.3070507@firstfloor.org> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:57:59 +0100 From: Andi Kleen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document huge memory/cache overhead of memory controller in Kconfig References: <20080220122338.GA4352@basil.nowhere.org> <47BC2275.4060900@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <18364.16552.455371.242369@stoffel.org> In-Reply-To: <18364.16552.455371.242369@stoffel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: John Stoffel Cc: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > I know this is a pedantic comment, but why the heck is it called such > a generic term as "Memory Controller" which doesn't give any > indication of what it does. I don't think it's pedantic. I would agree with you in fact that the Kconfig description is not very helpful, even with my warning added. -Andi -- 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