Re: [PATCH 3/3] Kconfig: organize memory-related config options

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Tue Feb 04 2014 - 11:02:16 EST


I'm sending this through the kbuild maintainer (Michal Marek), and he
asked that I collect a few acks from some mm folks. I'm ccing the folks
who put some of these option in there, or touched them recently. A
friendly ack or two would be appreciated.

On 01/31/2014 09:24 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> This continues in a series of patches to clean up the
> configuration menus. I believe they've become really hard to
> navigate and there are some simple things we can do to make
> things easier to find.
>
> This creates a "Memory Options" menu and moves some things like
> swap and slab configuration under them. It also moves SLUB_DEBUG
> to the debugging menu.
>
> After this patch, the menu has the following options:
>
> [ ] Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler
> [*] Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat
> [ ] Disable heap randomization
> [*] Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)
> Choose SLAB allocator (SLUB (Unqueued Allocator))
> [*] SLUB per cpu partial cache
> [*] SLUB: attempt to use double-cmpxchg operations



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