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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, rds-devel@oss.oracle.com,
	santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rds-tcp: Add module parameters to control sndbuf/rcvbuf size of RDS-TCP socket
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 14:12:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160311191213.GJ3383@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160311110927.5c559421@xeon-e3>

On (03/11/16 11:09), Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> Module parameters are a problem for distributions and should only be used
> as a last resort.

I was not aware of that- out of curiosity, what is the associated problem?

What would be the alternative recommendation in this case?

--Sowmini

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-11 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-11 18:29 [PATCH net-next] rds-tcp: Add module parameters to control sndbuf/rcvbuf size of RDS-TCP socket Sowmini Varadhan
2016-03-11 19:09 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-03-11 19:12   ` Sowmini Varadhan [this message]
2016-03-12  2:43   ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-03-12  3:21     ` Tom Herbert
2016-03-12  3:44       ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-03-12  4:07         ` Tom Herbert
2016-03-12  4:39           ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-03-14 17:57             ` Tom Herbert
2016-03-14 18:06               ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-03-14 18:59                 ` David Miller
2016-03-11 19:14 ` David Miller

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