linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 11/24] pageflag helpers for configed-out flags

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Message-ID: <20080611160814.5374467d@bree.surriel.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:08:14 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lee.schermerhorn@...com,
	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 11/24] pageflag helpers for configed-out flags

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:01:45 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:42:25 -0400
> Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Define proper false/noop inline functions for noreclaim page
> > flags when !defined(CONFIG_NORECLAIM_LRU)
> 
> I changed that to CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU.
> 
> Did we agree that the presence of this config variable is undesirable? 
> If so, what's involved in making it go away?

We agreed that having CONFIG_NORELAIM_SWAP was bad, that one went away.

As for CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU, I believe we will want to at least give
embedded people the option to compile without all that code, similar
to CONFIG_SWAP.

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