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

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri May 09 2014 - 03:38:51 EST


On Mon 2014-05-05 23:12:29, 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.

Sounds like "poor" performance of TCP and 400KB memory free is tradeoff that
makes for small machines.

Pavel
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