Re: Rusty's module talk at the Kernel Summit

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 21:55:04 EST


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)

And for _debugging_ IPv4 maybe the modularisation, if Adam was clever, could
help somewhat.

- Arnaldo (who is stupid not to be using UML extensively, but this
           will change RSN 8) )
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