From: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:11:52 -0500

> net_cls and net_prio are the only cgroups which are allowed to be
> built as modules.  The savings from allowing the two controllers to be
> built as modules are tiny especially given that cgroup module support
> itself adds quite a bit of complexity.
> 
> The following are the sizes of vmlinux with both built as module and
> both built as part of the kernel image with cgroup module support
> removed.
> 
>       text            data            bss             dec
>       20292207        2411496         10784768        33488471
>       20293421        2412568         10784768        33490757
> 
> The total difference is 2286 bytes.  Given that none of other
> controllers has much chance of being made a module and that we're
> unlikely to add new modular controllers, the added complexity is
> simply not justifiable.
> 
> As a first step to drop cgroup module support, this patch changes the
> two config options to bool from tristate and drops module related code
> from the two controllers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
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