Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Oct 2002 02:26:36 -0300 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ipv4: only produce one record in fib_seq_show |
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Em Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 10:14:03PM -0700, David S. Miller escreveu: > From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> > Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 02:08:49 -0300
> Both with CONFIG_SMP, CONFIG_NR_CPUS=2, so almos whooping 2 pages! Almost > one third of what CONFIG_SECURITY would add! ia32! Imagine on Sparc64! 8-P
> BTW, you'll top that by just converting ip_statistics, icmp_statistics, > tcp_statistics, and net_statistics to be per_cpu data :-)
> Note that this would prevent ipv4 from being hacked into being modular, but > there are no plans at all to make modular ipv4 for 2.6.x at all so this is a > valid transformation/cleanup.
> kernel/timer.c's main data structures desperately want to be per-cpu or > allocated at boot time also. It, as has been noted often on this list, is > actually more bloat than the ipv4 statistics stuff. :-)
And thats great! More stuff to shrink, the CONFIG_TINY brigade is taking notes, isn't it Rasmus? :-) Thanks for the suggestions David.
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