Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: Rusty's module talk at the Kernel Summit | Date | Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:16:22 +1000 |
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In message <20020711025503.GB5973@conectiva.com.br> you write: > Em Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 12:48:30PM +1000, Rusty Russell escreveu: > > On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 10:24:11 -0700 > > "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> wrote: > > > smaller ones, in the case where there is substantial code that is not > > > needed for some configurations. > > > > For God's sake, WHY? Look at what you're doing to your TLB (and if you > > made IPv4 a removable module, I'll bet real money you have a bug unless > > you are *very* *very* clever). > > > > Modules are not "free". Sorry. > > What about Andi Kleen patch to not use vmalloc (well, vmalloc is used as a > fallback) when loading modules but instead use big pages? It is being > integrated in 2.4.20-pre, IIRC. IIRC with that there is still some issues, so > for enlightening the audience here, could you share your view on that patch? 8)
Sure, but there was no indication that Adam was using such a patch 8)
> And for _debugging_ IPv4 maybe the modularisation, if Adam was clever, could > help somewhat.
Definitely. For debugging purposes, you don't need reference counting: when the hacker says "remove it", you remove it. 8)
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