Re: [PATCH] ipv4: only produce one record in fib_seq_show

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 10:14:03PM -0700, David S. Miller escreveu:
>    From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 02:08:49 -0300
    
>    Both with CONFIG_SMP, CONFIG_NR_CPUS=2, so almos whooping 2 pages! Almost
>    one third of what CONFIG_SECURITY would add! ia32! Imagine on Sparc64! 8-P

> BTW, you'll top that by just converting ip_statistics, icmp_statistics,
> tcp_statistics, and net_statistics to be per_cpu data :-)
 
> Note that this would prevent ipv4 from being hacked into being modular, but
> there are no plans at all to make modular ipv4 for 2.6.x at all so this is a
> valid transformation/cleanup.
 
> kernel/timer.c's main data structures desperately want to be per-cpu or
> allocated at boot time also.  It, as has been noted often on this list, is
> actually more bloat than the ipv4 statistics stuff. :-)

And thats great! More stuff to shrink, the CONFIG_TINY brigade is taking notes,
isn't it Rasmus? :-) Thanks for the suggestions David.

- Arnaldo