From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753338AbcEMP0k (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2016 11:26:40 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f67.google.com ([74.125.82.67]:34860 "EHLO mail-wm0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752912AbcEMP0j (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2016 11:26:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 17:26:36 +0200 From: Michal Hocko To: One Thousand Gnomes Cc: Mason , Sebastian Frias , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit mode Message-ID: <20160513152636.GV20141@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <5731CC6E.3080807@laposte.net> <20160513080458.GF20141@dhcp22.suse.cz> <573593EE.6010502@free.fr> <5735A3DE.9030100@laposte.net> <20160513120042.GK20141@dhcp22.suse.cz> <5735CAE5.5010104@laposte.net> <20160513145101.GS20141@dhcp22.suse.cz> <5735EBBC.6050705@free.fr> <20160513161104.330ab3d6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160513161104.330ab3d6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri 13-05-16 16:11:04, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > > It seems important to point out that Sebastian's patch does NOT change > > the default behavior. It merely creates a knob allowing one to override > > the default via Kconfig. > > > > +choice > > + prompt "Overcommit Mode" > > + default OVERCOMMIT_GUESS > > + depends on EXPERT > > Which is still completely pointless given that its a single sysctl value > set at early userspace time and most distributions ship with things like > sysctl and /etc/sysctl.conf > > We have a million other such knobs, putting them in kconfig just gets > silly. Exactly my point from the very begining. Thanks for being so direct here. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs