linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Document huge memory/cache overhead of memory controller in Kconfig

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Message-ID: <47BC5C99.3010008@firstfloor.org>
Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:00:09 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
CC:	John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>, akpm@...l.org,
	torvalds@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document huge memory/cache overhead of memory controller
 in Kconfig


> 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
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