Re: [PATCH v2] Partial revert "Basic kernel memory functionalityfor the Memory Controller"

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Dec 22 2011 - 22:39:41 EST


From: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>

Applied.
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