Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: >> Could[/should] this stuff be changed from ratios to amounts? Or a quick >> boot-time test to use a ratio if the memory is small and an amount (like >> tax brackets, I would expect) if it's great? > > Yes, the "percentage" thing was likely wrong. That said, there *is* some > correlation between "lots of memory" and "high-end machine", and that in > turn tends to correlate with "fast disk", so I don't think the percentage > approach is really *horribly* wrong. > > The main issue with the percentage is that we do export them as such > through the /proc/ interface, and they are easy to change and understand. > So changing them to amounts is non-trivial if you also want to support the > old interfaces - and the advantage isn't obvious enough that it's a > clear-cut case. >
We could add a new "limit" field, though. If it defaulted to 0 (unlimited) the default behavior wouldn't change. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/