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Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit mode

From Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit mode
Date 2016-05-13 17:30 +0200
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On Fri 13-05-16 16:11:04, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > It seems important to point out that Sebastian's patch does NOT change
> > the default behavior. It merely creates a knob allowing one to override
> > the default via Kconfig.
> > 
> > +choice
> > +	prompt "Overcommit Mode"
> > +	default OVERCOMMIT_GUESS
> > +	depends on EXPERT
> 
> Which is still completely pointless given that its a single sysctl value
> set at early userspace time and most distributions ship with things like
> sysctl and /etc/sysctl.conf
> 
> We have a million other such knobs, putting them in kconfig just gets
> silly.

Exactly my point from the very begining. Thanks for being so direct
here.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-13 10:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-05-13 10:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-13 12:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-05-13 12:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-05-13 12:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-13 13:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-05-13 14:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-13 16:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-05-13 16:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-05-13 17:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-05-13 17:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-05-13 17:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-05-17 10:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-17 11:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-05-17 18:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2016-05-17 19:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-05-18 17:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 18:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-17 22:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-05-18 17:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-19 09:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2016-05-13 19:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2016-05-13 15:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-05-13 12:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-13 14:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-05-13 14:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2016-05-13 15:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-05-13 15:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2016-05-13 16:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-05-13 16:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2016-05-13 17:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-05-13 17:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-05-13 17:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-13 17:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-05-13 15:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2016-05-13 16:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-05-13 16:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-13 17:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2016-05-13 17:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-13 17:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr> - 2016-05-13 17:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-05-13 17:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-13 17:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-05-13 17:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-05-13 17:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-05-13 17:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit  mode Sebastian Frias <sf84@laposte.net> - 2016-05-23 15:20 +0200

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