Re: [2.6 patch] mm/vmstat.c: possible cleanups

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 10:49:02AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
> > - make the needlessly global setup_vmstat() static
> 
> Ok.
> 
> > - #if 0 the unused refresh_vm_stats()
> 
> Hmmm... This may be needed by the cpu idle code to update the vm stats 
> before going idle.

Since 1 year it's making the kernel image larger without having a single 
user.

And if it will one day get a user, removing the #if 0 will be trivial.

cu
Adrian

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