Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:30:57 -0700 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrey Zonov <zont@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> Subject: Re: svn commit: r253662 - in head: lib/libc/gen sys/vm tools/tools/sysdoc Message-ID: <CACVs6=_gLGtW01-rmxTmaVgMBJWjpFHMEQ2R36Nvf2er7B4v%2Bw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51F2E970.3070303@FreeBSD.org> References: <201307260200.r6Q207cB015223@svn.freebsd.org> <20130726150949.GC14175@stack.nl> <51F2E970.3070303@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Andrey Zonov <zont@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 7/26/13 8:09 AM, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 02:00:07AM +0000, Andrey Zonov wrote: > >> Author: zont > >> Date: Fri Jul 26 02:00:06 2013 > >> New Revision: 253662 > >> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/253662 > > > >> Log: > >> Remove define and documentation for vm_pageout_algorithm missed in > r253587 > > > >> Modified: > >> head/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 > >> head/sys/vm/vm_param.h > >> head/tools/tools/sysdoc/tunables.mdoc > > > >> Modified: head/sys/vm/vm_param.h > >> > ============================================================================== > >> --- head/sys/vm/vm_param.h Fri Jul 26 00:28:19 2013 (r253661) > >> +++ head/sys/vm/vm_param.h Fri Jul 26 02:00:06 2013 (r253662) > >> @@ -82,9 +82,8 @@ > >> #define VM_V_CACHE_MIN 7 /* cnt.v_cache_min */ > >> #define VM_V_CACHE_MAX 8 /* cnt.v_cache_max */ > >> #define VM_V_PAGEOUT_FREE_MIN 9 /* cnt.v_pageout_free_min > */ > >> -#define VM_PAGEOUT_ALGORITHM 10 /* pageout algorithm */ > >> -#define VM_SWAPPING_ENABLED 11 /* swapping enabled */ > >> -#define VM_MAXID 12 /* number of valid vm ids > */ > >> +#define VM_SWAPPING_ENABLED 10 /* swapping enabled */ > >> +#define VM_MAXID 11 /* number of valid vm ids > */ > > > > As noted in mail from Bruce Evans, please preserve the ABI of > > VM_SWAPPING_ENABLED here. > > > > I don't think it's a big problem. Internally we don't use it. Good > code uses sysctlbyname() instead of sysctl(). It doesn't seem to me > this is very popular sysctl. It's also CURRENT without MFC. That doesn't seem like a great argument. Why should we break the ABI for bad code that used that sysctl and all following? It seems pretty trivial to preserve, and no-cost. Also, the fact that it's in current misses the point completely: it breaks ABI with older binaries, namely older binaries running on -CURRENT. And not just for that field.
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