| Date | Mon, 05 May 2014 23:09:25 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 21/24] net, diet: Make packet tpacket/mmap/fanout/rings optional | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 15:26:10 -0700
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > > Many DHCP clients need basic packet sockets, but they don't need > the fancy zero copy packet capture code, like tpacket, mmap, rings, > fanouts. This is quite substantial code, so it's worthwhile to > make it optional > > Worth nearly 10k code. > > text data bss dec hex filename > 952827 71874 25352 1050053 1005c5 net/built-in.o-with-packet-mmap > 943211 71810 25352 1040373 fdff5 net/built-in.o-wo-packet-mmap > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Sorry, I'm not applying this either.
Small systems use packet generation and reception tools commonly, and the only sane way to do so is with tpacket.
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