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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:51:49 +0900 From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp> To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@...jp.nec.com>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: revert "config FS_JOURNAL_INFO" Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> writes: > On 12/18/09, Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@...jp.nec.com> wrote: >> So we never allow to make memory usage small with providing an option >> to remove unused area, right? > > We certainly allow this if it results in zero loss in functionality. > >> If I want to reduce memory usage by this way, should I keep >> this kind of patches out of tree? > > Certainly nobody can prohibit you from keeping patch out of tree. > But if you want something mainlinable, moving ->journal_info > to fs-specific data structures should do the trick. Or something. Why doesn't this use EMBEDDED? I.e. boot "xxx" if EMBEDDED default y style Kconfig. Only reason which seems reasonable is "this is done only for one pointer on task_struct". This reason seems something like "You care, but I don't care it". And, other reasons is *normal* situation on EMBEDDED, right? Thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp> -- 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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