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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)
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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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