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Message-ID: <20080407120340.GB16647@one.firstfloor.org> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:03:40 +0200 From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> To: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: andi@...stfloor.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@...inux.co.jp>, Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>, hugh@...itas.com, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> Subject: Re: [-mm] Disable the memory controller by default On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:21:37PM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: > > > Due to the overhead of the memory controller. The > memory controller is now disabled by default. This patch changes > cgroup_disable to cgroup_toggle, so that each controller can decide > whether it wants to be enabled/disabled by default. > > If everyone agrees on this approach and likes it, should we push this > into 2.6.25? First I like the change to make it disabled by default. I don't think "toggle" is good semantics for a user visible switch because that changes the meaning when the kernel default changes (which it will likely once the current default overhead is fixed) It should be rather: cgroup=on/off -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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