Hey, On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 09:08:49AM +0800, Li Zefan wrote: > Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dbork...@redhat.com> > > On 2014/1/18 2:11, Tejun Heo wrote: > > 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. > > > > I sugguested Daniel to do this for net_cls, and the change has been in > net-next. > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=fe1217c4f3f7d7cbf8efdd8dd5fdc7204a1d65a8 > > I was planning to remove module support after that change goes into > upstream. :)
Ooh, cool. :) Unless there's gonna be another rc, I think it's already a bit too late for 3.14 anyway. I'll drop the net_cls part and rebase the changes on top of rc1 later on. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
