Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:46:38 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Patch for Retry based AIO-DIO (Was AIO and DIO testingon2.6.0-test7-mm1) |
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Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> wrote: > > > That was before we knew that it craps out when compiled on RH9. > > And one of the arguments I had for making it dependent on EXPERIMENTAL > instead of enabling it unconditionally was: > > - it's less tested (there might be miscompilations in some part of the > kernel with some supported compilers)
That's why I enabled it unconditionally.
> -Os has it's benefits on some systems, so it shouldn't be totally hidden > under EMBEDDED. OTOH, it's less tested, so only people who know what > they are doing should use it (EXPERIMENTAL plus help text).
It causes kernels to crash on a major linux distribution. We need to either make it very hard to turn on, or just forget it altogether.
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