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Re: de-modularising for the win!
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 01:25:50PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Dave Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:25:49AM -0400, Peter Jones wrote: > > > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > > See various and sundry plumber's conf discussions. > > > > > > > > Comments? (The netfilter stuff needs further investigation.) > > > > > > Also, please add these, since they're nearly always loaded (patch is on > > > top of yours): > > > > I think this makes sense to do now as a stop-gap, but one day, > > I hope we can get to a situation where we do modprobe of such > > things based on a config file instead of always doing it. > > Ideally the DM layer would be able to request_module() the map type > whenever necessary. Wherever possible, yes that would be even better. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
Re: de-modularising for the win!
Dave Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:25:49AM -0400, Peter Jones wrote: > > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > See various and sundry plumber's conf discussions. > > > > > > Comments? (The netfilter stuff needs further investigation.) > > > > Also, please add these, since they're nearly always loaded (patch is on > > top of yours): > > I think this makes sense to do now as a stop-gap, but one day, > I hope we can get to a situation where we do modprobe of such > things based on a config file instead of always doing it. Ideally the DM layer would be able to request_module() the map type whenever necessary. Bill ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
Re: de-modularising for the win!
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:25:49AM -0400, Peter Jones wrote: > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > See various and sundry plumber's conf discussions. > > > > Comments? (The netfilter stuff needs further investigation.) > > Also, please add these, since they're nearly always loaded (patch is on > top of yours): I think this makes sense to do now as a stop-gap, but one day, I hope we can get to a situation where we do modprobe of such things based on a config file instead of always doing it. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
Re: de-modularising for the win!
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 01:06:57PM -0400, Peter Jones wrote: > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 25K 2008-09-23 21:38 dm-mirror.ko > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 25K 2008-09-23 21:38 dm-snapshot.ko > -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 7.0K 2008-09-23 21:38 dm-zero.ko > > 57kB or so max. But at the same time, these are loaded on nearly every > Fedora system, and loaded as modules they're taking up at least 64kB . > Groovy. Didn't mean it specifically for this case, but just in general it would be good to see the size increase we're going to be looking at. regards, Kyle ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
Re: de-modularising for the win!
Kyle McMartin wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:25:49AM -0400, Peter Jones wrote: Bill Nottingham wrote: See various and sundry plumber's conf discussions. Comments? (The netfilter stuff needs further investigation.) Also, please add these, since they're nearly always loaded (patch is on top of yours): diff --git a/config-generic b/config-generic index 0f43c42..de33831 100644 --- a/config-generic +++ b/config-generic @@ -640,14 +640,14 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y CONFIG_DM_CRYPT=m CONFIG_DM_DEBUG=y # CONFIG_DM_DELAY is not set -CONFIG_DM_MIRROR=m +CONFIG_DM_MIRROR=y CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH=m CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_EMC=m CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_HP=m CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_RDAC=m -CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT=m +CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT=y CONFIG_DM_UEVENT=y -CONFIG_DM_ZERO=m +CONFIG_DM_ZERO=y Not that I object to this or anything of the sort, but it would be nice if when people were asking for things to be built-in, to see the size difference on vmlinux on a Fedora build with it enabled. Well, I haven't done a build (on a slow laptop right now) but these modules don't have anything funny going wrt compiling differently when modular. So that means: -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 25K 2008-09-23 21:38 dm-mirror.ko -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 25K 2008-09-23 21:38 dm-snapshot.ko -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 7.0K 2008-09-23 21:38 dm-zero.ko 57kB or so max. But at the same time, these are loaded on nearly every Fedora system, and loaded as modules they're taking up at least 64kB . -- Peter ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
Re: de-modularising for the win!
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:25:49AM -0400, Peter Jones wrote: > Bill Nottingham wrote: >> See various and sundry plumber's conf discussions. >> >> Comments? (The netfilter stuff needs further investigation.) > > Also, please add these, since they're nearly always loaded (patch is on > top of yours): > > diff --git a/config-generic b/config-generic > index 0f43c42..de33831 100644 > --- a/config-generic > +++ b/config-generic > @@ -640,14 +640,14 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y > CONFIG_DM_CRYPT=m > CONFIG_DM_DEBUG=y > # CONFIG_DM_DELAY is not set > -CONFIG_DM_MIRROR=m > +CONFIG_DM_MIRROR=y > CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH=m > CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_EMC=m > CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_HP=m > CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_RDAC=m > -CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT=m > +CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT=y > CONFIG_DM_UEVENT=y > -CONFIG_DM_ZERO=m > +CONFIG_DM_ZERO=y > Not that I object to this or anything of the sort, but it would be nice if when people were asking for things to be built-in, to see the size difference on vmlinux on a Fedora build with it enabled. regards, Kyle ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
Re: de-modularising for the win!
Bill Nottingham wrote: See various and sundry plumber's conf discussions. Comments? (The netfilter stuff needs further investigation.) Also, please add these, since they're nearly always loaded (patch is on top of yours): diff --git a/config-generic b/config-generic index 0f43c42..de33831 100644 --- a/config-generic +++ b/config-generic @@ -640,14 +640,14 @@ CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=y CONFIG_DM_CRYPT=m CONFIG_DM_DEBUG=y # CONFIG_DM_DELAY is not set -CONFIG_DM_MIRROR=m +CONFIG_DM_MIRROR=y CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH=m CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_EMC=m CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_HP=m CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH_RDAC=m -CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT=m +CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT=y CONFIG_DM_UEVENT=y -CONFIG_DM_ZERO=m +CONFIG_DM_ZERO=y # # Fusion MPT device support ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
