On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 13:50 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> +config MEMCG_DEFAULT_ENABLED
> +     bool "Automatically enable memory resource controller"
> +     default y
> +     depends on MEMCG
> +     help
> +       The memory controller has some overhead even if idle as resource
> +       usage must be tracked in case a group is created and a process
> +       migrated. As users may not be aware of this and the cgroup_disable=
> +       option, this config option controls whether it is enabled by
> +       default. It is assumed that someone that requires the controller
> +       can find the cgroup_enable= switch.
> +
> +       Say N if unsure. This is default Y to preserve oldconfig and
> +       historical behaviour.

Out of curiosity, how do you expect distros to handle this? I mean, this
is a pretty general functionality and customers won't want to be
changing kernels (they may or may not use memcg). iow, will this ever be
disabled?

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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