On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:29:07 +0100, Mel Gorman mel@csn.ul.ie wrote:
Overall, this patch implies that CMA is always compiled in.
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 03:41:04PM +0100, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
Not really. But yes, it produces some bloat when neither CMA nor compaction are compiled. I assume that linker will be able to deal with that (since the functions are not EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed).
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:40:15 +0100, Mel Gorman mel@csn.ul.ie wrote:
The bloat exists either way. I don't believe the linker strips it out so overall it would make more sense to depend on compaction to keep the vmstat counters for debugging reasons if nothing else. It's not something I feel very strongly about though.
KK, I'll do that then.