Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 16:37:27 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: Andrey Zonov <zont@freebsd.org>, Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [patch] unprivileged mlock(2) Message-ID: <CAGH67wSfOC_O06SLs8=b=CLxuA9AYFa47hw5wXoGuuB_iQYa-A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmonTAe17Z0Z6y0sWed=EU=yALPo6Nhp_Rw_U8dgCEAcbkw@mail.gmail.com> References: <503DD433.2030108@FreeBSD.org> <201208290906.q7T96C9j032802@gw.catspoiler.org> <20120829092318.GW33100@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <503F2D24.8050103@FreeBSD.org> <503F476E.1010505@FreeBSD.org> <50463610.6070805@FreeBSD.org> <CAJ-VmonTAe17Z0Z6y0sWed=EU=yALPo6Nhp_Rw_U8dgCEAcbkw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 4 September 2012 10:10, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> And it also makes me wonder why kern/kern_racct.c is marked as standard while >> all(?) uses of racct API are placed under RACCT option. >> Ditto for kern_rctl.c/RCTL. >> I think that excluding these file if the options are not used would help to catch >> cases where the API is used unconditionally and it would also help to reduce >> kernel sizes a tiny bit too. > > Thank you very much for considering kernel bloat here. It's this exact > kind of tiny bloat that has caused FreeBSD to blow up through "death > by a thousand cuts". > > Anything that we can keep from growing the kernel size is going to > make it easier to embed on smaller devices - and there's many, many > more embedded targets out there these days versus "PCs" (or macs. :-) Hear hear! -Garrett
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