Re: [PATCH v2] IPVS: logging sizeof(struct ip_vs_conn) on startup

[David Miller]

From: Hannes Eder <heder@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:13:57 +0200

> No more guessing, how much memory used by IPVS for a connection.
> 
> [ The number printed is a lower bound, as ip_vs_conn_cache uses
> SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN. ]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <heder@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Who needs to know this?  A developer?

They can run tools such as 'pahole' et al. to fish out this
information even when only a kernel binary is available.

For the user, it's just noise.

I'm not applying this, sorry.
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