linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Partial revert "Basic kernel memory functionality for the Memory Controller"

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Message-Id: <20111222.223923.800285938031564380.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:39:23 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	glommer@...allels.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, kirill@...temov.name, paul@...lmenage.org,
	gthelen@...gle.com, jweiner@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Partial revert "Basic kernel memory functionality
 for the Memory Controller"

From: Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:02:27 +0400

> This reverts commit e5671dfae59b165e2adfd4dfbdeab11ac8db5bda.
> 
> After a follow up discussion with Michal, it was agreed it would
> be better to leave the kmem controller with just the tcp files,
> deferring the behavior of the other general memory.kmem.* files
> for a later time, when more caches are controlled. This is because
> generic kmem files are not used by tcp accounting and it is
> not clear how other slab caches would fit into the scheme.
> 
> We are reverting the original commit so we can track the reference.
> Part of the patch is kept, because it was used by the later tcp
> code. Conflicts are shown in the bottom. init/Kconfig is removed from
> the revert entirely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>

Applied.
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