Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.5.69-mm6 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 16 May 2003 16:37:43 +0100 |
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On Gwe, 2003-05-16 at 11:04, bert hubert wrote: > Please don't! For the same reason as the futexes, turning this off will > randombly break stuff and on a pc it won't give any benefit. > > I'd vote for treating this patch just like the futexes one, making sure that > those who know *how* can turn epoll off, but leave it out of make config. > > Furthermore, I wonder if this patch is a large savings, the bulk of epoll is > infrastructure, not the few syscalls.
All of this stuff should be disablable and far more. It probably all wants hiding under a single "Shrink feature set" type option most people can skip over as they do with kernel debugging.
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