Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:57:27 -0800 (PST) | | From | Christoph Lameter <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.16-rc6-mm2: Why is CONFIG_MIGRATION available for everyone? |
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 5. Make it possible to configure NUMA systems without page migration > and non-NUMA systems with page migration. > > > I don't see the point in making this option visible for the majority of > users on non-NUMA systems who will never need it. > > When is it required on non-NUMA systems? > Memory hotplug?
That is one. It also may be useful for transferring pages between various zones. Could be used to free up space in ZONE_DMA etc. Right now none of these uses exist so we could disable it by default for now? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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