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

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Wed Jun 11 2008 - 16:09:20 EST


On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:01:45 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:42:25 -0400
> Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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