Re: wierd new config options

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Oct 23 2008 - 16:20:23 EST


On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 03:59:42PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >Why is UNEVICTABLE_LRU and option? Is there any rason to turn it off or
> >is this just to confuse users?
>
> Since the swapout code itself is already configurable with
> CONFIG_SWAP, I do believe we want to be able to config out
> the unevictable LRU code.
>
> I guess it could be argued that maybe CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU
> should just be folded into CONFIG_SWAP...

Sounds like a good plan.

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