0835ab53ea
Document huge memory/cache overhead of memory controller in Kconfig I was a little surprised that 2.6.25-rc* increased struct page for the memory controller. At least on many x86-64 machines it will not fit into a single cache line now anymore and also costs considerable amounts of RAM. At earlier review I remembered asking for a external data structure for this. It's also quite unobvious that a innocent looking Kconfig option with a single line Kconfig description has such a negative effect. This patch attempts to document these disadvantages at least so that users configuring their kernel can make a informed decision. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| calibrate.c | ||
| do_mounts.c | ||
| do_mounts.h | ||
| do_mounts_initrd.c | ||
| do_mounts_md.c | ||
| do_mounts_rd.c | ||
| initramfs.c | ||
| main.c | ||
| noinitramfs.c | ||
| version.c | ||