netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/6] cgroup: make CONFIG_NET_CLS_CGROUP and CONFIG_NETPRIO

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Message-ID: <52DA64B7.3030909@redhat.com>
Date:	Sat, 18 Jan 2014 12:25:43 +0100
From:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
To:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
CC:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] cgroup: make CONFIG_NET_CLS_CGROUP and CONFIG_NETPRIO_CGROUP
 bool instead of tristate

On 01/18/2014 02:08 AM, Li Zefan wrote:
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
> 
> On 2014/1/18 2:11, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> net_cls and net_prio are the only cgroups which are allowed to be
>> built as modules.  The savings from allowing the two controllers to be
>> built as modules are tiny especially given that cgroup module support
>> itself adds quite a bit of complexity.
>>
>> The following are the sizes of vmlinux with both built as module and
>> both built as part of the kernel image with cgroup module support
>> removed.
>>
>> 	text		data		bss		dec
>> 	20292207	2411496		10784768	33488471
>> 	20293421	2412568		10784768	33490757
>>
>> The total difference is 2286 bytes.  Given that none of other
>> controllers has much chance of being made a module and that we're
>> unlikely to add new modular controllers, the added complexity is
>> simply not justifiable.
>>
>> As a first step to drop cgroup module support, this patch changes the
>> two config options to bool from tristate and drops module related code
>> from the two controllers.
>>
> 
> I sugguested Daniel to do this for net_cls, and the change has been in
> net-next.
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=fe1217c4f3f7d7cbf8efdd8dd5fdc7204a1d65a8
> 
> I was planning to remove module support after that change goes into
> upstream. :)

I am fine with that, thanks Li.

>> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
>> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
>> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
>> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
>> ---
>>   net/Kconfig               |  2 +-
>>   net/core/netprio_cgroup.c | 32 ++------------------------------
>>   net/sched/Kconfig         |  2 +-
>>   net/sched/cls_cgroup.c    | 23 ++---------------------
>>   4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
>>
> 
> The modular version of task_netprioidx() in include/net/netprio_cgroup.h
> can be removed.
> 
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