On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 07:43:02AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Nov 19, 2010, at 5:48 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > At least as long as !CONFIG_COMPACTION exists. That will be a while because > > bear in mind CONFIG_COMPACTION is disabled by default (although I believe > > some distros are enabling it at least). Maybe we should choose to deprecate > > it in 2.6.40 and delete it at the infamous time of 2.6.42? That would give > > ample time to iron out any issues that crop up with reclaim/compaction > > (what this series has turned into). > > How about making the default before 2.6.40, as an initial step? > It'd be a reasonable way of ensuring it's being tested everywhere and not by those that are interested or using distro kernel configs. I guess we'd set to "default y" in the same patch that adds the note to feature-removal-schedule.txt. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>