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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Question] about modules/inline benefits
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:54:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806030954.42188.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g22rrs$6vp$1@ger.gmane.org>

Am Dienstag 03 Juni 2008 09:28:59 schrieb Sitsofe Wheeler:
> Modules allow you to support more hardware as there is a maximum size of the
> core kernel image.

But you pay for every module with half a page of unused RAM and module
code will be in vmalloced memory thus increases TLB pressure a bit.

	Regards
		Oliver


  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-03  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-03  4:13 [Question] about modules/inline benefits Justin Madru
2008-06-03  7:28 ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2008-06-03  7:54   ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2008-06-03 17:19     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-06-03 17:27       ` Adrian Bunk

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