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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] dev: add support of flag IFF_NOPROC
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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 14:07:00 +0200

> Of course optimizing /proc and /sysfs is a good option, but any
> optimizations
> will never be as fast as disabling them for some well known
> netdevices.
> 
> Note also that the memory consumption is significantly less with this
> flag:

It potentially breaks tools, it's a non-starter, sorry.