From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgg@nvidia.com, leonro@nvidia.com,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Tal Gilboa <talgi@nvidia.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list:LIBRARY CODE)
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] lib: Allow for the DIM library to be modular
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 17:58:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240502175815.4f1619c6@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240503002540.7154-1-florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
On Thu, 2 May 2024 17:25:40 -0700 Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Allow the Dynamic Interrupt Moderation (DIM) library to be built as a
> module. This is particularly useful in an Android GKI (Google Kernel
> Image) configuration where everything is built as a module, including
> Ethernet controller drivers. Having to build DIMLIB into the kernel
> image with potentially no user is wasteful.
How big is it? Folks from Alibaba are trying to add the ability to
change the profiles, they'd need to change the calling conventions.
Which is not terrible, but also why make them suffer if the gain
isn't big..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-03 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-03 0:25 [PATCH net-next] lib: Allow for the DIM library to be modular Florian Fainelli
2024-05-03 0:58 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2024-05-03 3:19 ` Florian Fainelli
2024-05-03 21:36 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-05-04 20:16 ` Simon Horman
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