From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <47BC5C99.3010008@firstfloor.org> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:00:09 +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> <47BC4554.10304@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <18364.20755.798295.881259@stoffel.org> <47BC5211.6030102@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <47BC5211.6030102@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: John Stoffel , Jan Engelhardt , akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > OK, I'll queue a patch and try to explain various terms used by resource management. Don't make it too verbose or nobody will read it. It should be more like a one paragraph abstract on a scientific paper about the linux memory controller. But I think it should include some variant of the warning that was in the original patch in this thread (that could be the second paragraph) -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