Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] mm: intorduce __GFP_UNMAPPED and unmapped_alloc()

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Tue Mar 28 2023 - 13:38:45 EST


On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 10:18:50AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> differences with eBPF programs is that modules *can* be rather large
> in size. What is the average size of modules? Well let's take a look:
>
> mcgrof@bigtwin /mirror/code/mcgrof/linux-next (git::master)$ find ./
> -name \*.ko| wc -l
> 9173

ummm ... wc -c, surely?

> mcgrof@bigtwin /mirror/code/mcgrof/linux-next (git::master)$ find ./
> -name \*.ko| xargs stat -c "%s - %n" | sort -n -k 1 -r | tail
> -$((9173-5)) | awk 'BEGIN {sum=0} {sum+=$1} END {print sum/NR/1024}'
> 160.54

... which invalidates all of these.