linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] make I/O schedulers non-modular

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Message-ID: <20071125162105.GA6658@kernel.dk>
Date:	Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:21:07 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] make I/O schedulers non-modular

On Sun, Nov 25 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> There isn't any big advantage and doesn't seem to be much usage of 
> modular schedulers.
> 
> OTOH, the overhead made the kernel image of an x86 defconfig (that 
> doesn't use modular schedulers) bigger by nearly 2 kB.

Big nack, I use it all the time for testing. Just because you don't
happen to use it is not a reason to remove it.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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