Re: [PATCH 08/24] net, diet: Make TCP metrics optional

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon May 05 2014 - 23:21:23 EST


On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 11:12:29PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 15:25:57 -0700
>
> > This is all the code that saves connection information
> > between different sockets. Not really essential for
> > small systems.
>
> It is absolutely essential unless you want poor performance
> of TCP connections.

Ok so every code in the network stack is essential?

What parts would you remove to get the foot print down for a 2MB
single purpose machine?

-Andi

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