On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 15:57 +0800, WANG Chao wrote: > Hi, Davidlohr > > On 01/21/15 at 11:46pm, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 14:29 +0800, WANG Chao wrote: > > > Add a new kconfig option VMACACHE_SHIFT (as a power of 2) to specify the > > > number of slots vma cache has for each thread. Range is chosen 0-4 (1-16 > > > slots) to consider both overhead and performance penalty. Default is 2 > > > (4 slots) as it originally is, which provides good enough balance. > > > > > > > Nack. I don't feel comfortable making scalability features of core code > > configurable. > > Out of respect, is this a general rule not making scalability features > of core code configurable?
I doubt its a rule, just common sense. Users have no business configuring such low level details. The optimizations need to transparently work for everyone. Thanks, Davidlohr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
