From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757601AbYEMFvV (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 01:51:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754987AbYEMFvK (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 01:51:10 -0400 Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.35]:44722 "EHLO smtp5-g19.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754775AbYEMFvJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 01:51:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 07:51:07 +0200 From: FD Cami To: Donald Douwsma Cc: Georgi Chorbadzhiyski , xfs@oss.sgi.com, jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, cluster-devel@redhat.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , volkerdi@slackware.com Subject: Re: Unneeded kernel threads (xfs, jfs, gfs2) Message-ID: <20080513075107.2edc44d3@olorin> In-Reply-To: <48292742.8090409@sgi.com> References: <4828CAC6.3090402@unixsol.org> <48292742.8090409@sgi.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:29:38 +1000 Donald Douwsma wrote: > Georgi Chorbadzhiyski wrote: > > Hi guys, I know that not all kernel thread users are converted to > > start only when needed but the following is little annoying specially > > when I'm not even using jfs, xfs and gfs2. > > > > Look at the ps output from a standard distro 2.6.24.5 kernel after a > > fresh boot: > ... > > > > > Kernel config can be found here: > > http://mirrors.unixsol.org/slackware/slackware-12.1/kernels/hugesmp.s/config > > > > Your distro is building all of these modules into the kernel. > CONFIG_XFS_FS=y > CONFIG_JFS_FS=y > CONFIG_GFS2_FS=y > > This isnt exactly standard practice, normally they'd be set to =m and only > used if required to mount a filesystem. You may want to ask the slackware > people why they chose to do this for their hugexxx.s kernels. To be able to use those filesystems on root partitions without requiring an initrd. Georgi might be interested to use the generic kernel instead of the huge one, it is available there : http://mirrors.unixsol.org/slackware/slackware-12.1/slackware/a/kernel-generic-smp-2.6.24.5_smp-i686-2.tgz Documentation : http://mirrors.unixsol.org/slackware/slackware-12.1/README.TXT http://mirrors.unixsol.org/slackware/slackware-12.1/README.initrd http://mirrors.unixsol.org/slackware/slackware-12.1/RELEASE_NOTES Cheers Francois