Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:39:50 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3 v3] mm/vmalloc: Cache the vmalloc memory info | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote: > > [Maybe one could just remove the fields and see if anybody actually > notices/cares any longer. Or, if they are only used by kernel > developers, put them in their own file.]
I'm actually inclined to try exactly that for 4.3, and then take Ingo's patch as a fallback in case somebody actually notices.
I'm not convinced anybody actually uses those values, and they are getting *less* relevant rather than more (on 64-bit, those values really don't matter, since the vmalloc space isn't really a limitation), so let's try removing them and seeing what happens. And then we know what we can do if somebody does actually notice.
Linus
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