From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752673AbaEFRMQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2014 13:12:16 -0400 Received: from g4t3426.houston.hp.com ([15.201.208.54]:36871 "EHLO g4t3426.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751111AbaEFRMO (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2014 13:12:14 -0400 Message-ID: <536917EB.60605@hp.com> Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 10:12:11 -0700 From: Rick Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: josh@joshtriplett.org, David Miller CC: andi@firstfloor.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com, ak@linux.intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/24] net, diet: Make TCP metrics optional References: <20140506032114.GP2382@two.firstfloor.org> <20140505.232327.578134514220748085.davem@davemloft.net> <20140506155703.GA20391@cloud> <20140506.115941.428706504757835279.davem@davemloft.net> <20140506164108.GA20536@cloud> In-Reply-To: <20140506164108.GA20536@cloud> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/06/2014 09:41 AM, josh@joshtriplett.org wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 11:59:41AM -0400, David Miller wrote: >> Making 2MB RAM machines today makes no sense at all. >> >> The lowest end dirt cheap smartphone, something which fits on >> someone's pocket, has gigabytes of ram. > > The lowest-end smartphone isn't anywhere close to "dirt cheap", and > hardly counts as "embedded" at all anymore. Smartphones cost $100+; > we're talking about systems in the low tens of dollars or less. These > systems will have no graphics, no peripherals, and only one or two > specific functions. The entirety of their functionality will likely > consist of a single userspace program; they might not even have a PID 2. > *That's* the kind of "embedded" we're talking about, not the > supercomputers we carry around in our pockets. Would this be some sort of "Internet of Things" system? rick jones