From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751338AbWFBIxi (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 04:53:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751340AbWFBIxh (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 04:53:37 -0400 Received: from ccerelbas01.cce.hp.com ([161.114.21.104]:5761 "EHLO ccerelbas01.cce.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751338AbWFBIxh (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 04:53:37 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 14:23:33 +0530 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" To: Martin Bligh Cc: Roman Zippel , "Martin J. Bligh" , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@shadowen.org Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc5-mm1 Message-ID: <20060602085333.GA26068@satan.india.hp.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r782 (Debian) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 04:55:49PM +0000, Martin Bligh wrote: > Roman Zippel wrote: > >Hi, > >On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > >>Did you read the discussion that lead up to it? I thought that quite > >>clearly described why such a thing was needed. > >I did read it, what did I miss? > > So the point is to enable the performance-affecting debug options by > default, but provide one clear hook to turn them all off, with a name > that's consistent over time, so we can do it in an automated fashion. > How about using mechanism similar to smp alternatives to enable disable these features /debug options run time ? -aneesh