netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/10] netvsc fixes and new features

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Message-Id: <20170726.235919.298200628681187723.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 26 Jul 2017 23:59:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        corbet@....net, devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/10] netvsc fixes and new features

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:40:19 -0700

> The next group of patches aims to reduce the driver memory footprint
> by reducing the size of the per-device receive and send buffers, and
> the per-channel receive completion queue.

Sorry Stephen, I have to draw the line with those module parameters.

Search out alternate mechanism which can work at run time, such as
using devlink or similar.

Don't tell me it's "impossible" or "hard", simply do.

Thanks.