From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Turn part of SNMP accounting macros into functions
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:54:32 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B6A008.9080907@openvz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B69F48.5050308@cosmosbay.com>
> Sometime I wonder if a *global* pointer ('current' pointer for example
> is not passed to every kernel function that want access to current
> struture) would save many kbytes in vmlinux text. This way, !CONFIG_NET_NS
> overhead would completely vanish.
:) I'm glad to hear, that we're not alone with such a view of how
this have to work. We at OpenVZ proposed the current_net macro from
the very beginning, but other netns developers decided to go the other
way :(
> Oh well...
Oh well, indeed...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-28 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-27 16:31 [RFC][PATCH] Turn part of SNMP accounting macros into functions Pavel Emelyanov
2008-08-27 16:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-08-27 16:56 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-08-27 17:09 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-08-27 17:58 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-08-27 17:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-08-28 11:12 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-08-28 12:51 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-08-28 12:54 ` Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2008-08-29 7:01 ` Herbert Xu
2008-08-29 7:29 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-08-29 12:57 ` Christoph Lameter
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