netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] dev: add support of flag IFF

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Message-Id: <20131004.132908.559388558582428910.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:29:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc:	stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] dev: add support of flag IFF_NOPROC

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.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.
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