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SubjectRe: DM_CACHE_SMQ is experimental and enabled by default? (was: Re: dm cache: add stochastic-multi-queue (smq) policy)
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Hi Mike,

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26 2015 at 3:47am -0400,
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:13 AM, Linux Kernel Mailing List
>> <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> wrote:
>> > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=66a636356647a9be8885c2ce2948de126577698a
>> > Commit: 66a636356647a9be8885c2ce2948de126577698a
>> >
>> > dm cache: add stochastic-multi-queue (smq) policy
>>
>> > diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig
>> > index edcf4ab..b597273 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/md/Kconfig
>> > +++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig
>> > @@ -304,6 +304,18 @@ config DM_CACHE_MQ
>> > This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises
>> > reads over writes.
>> >
>> > +config DM_CACHE_SMQ
>> > + tristate "Stochastic MQ Cache Policy (EXPERIMENTAL)"
>> > + depends on DM_CACHE
>> > + default y
>>
>> A feature cannot be "EXPERIMENTAL", and be enabled by default.
>> Please drop (at least) one of them.
>
> Thanks for your concern, but: no.
>
> If you look closer the entirety of DM cache is marked EXPERIMENTAL:
>
> config DM_CACHE
> tristate "Cache target (EXPERIMENTAL)"

I stand corrected. Sorry for the fuss.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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