> On Dec 5, 2015, at 9:30 PM, William A Rowe Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 4, 2015, at 10:25 AM, William A Rowe Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > My observation was that that the mapped pages for 2-6 fundamental socache, > > lbmethod or slotmem providers are the same as for a single module due to > > page alignment - load any two and you are already wasting kernel resources > > and memory. > > > > Since you refer to these 3 modules, what to you recommend? That > we bundle all providers into 1 module? That's fine with me but > my point was that the whole idea of submodules and providers, > whether from us or not, was that the admin only needs to load > the ones they use. This recommendation seems to ignore this > basic advice. > > That advise always applies if the module interacts with the user-agent. >
I have no idea why it also doesn't apply no matter what. Isn't the whole idea of a loadable modules is so one can add, or remove, functionality, no matter what, when it's not needed? The idea of it only applying when it (directly) "interacts with the user-agent" seems extremely artificial.
