On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 01:11:52PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > net_cls and net_prio are the only cgroups which are allowed to be > built as modules. The savings from allowing the two controllers to be > built as modules are tiny especially given that cgroup module support > itself adds quite a bit of complexity. > > The following are the sizes of vmlinux with both built as module and > both built as part of the kernel image with cgroup module support > removed. > > text data bss dec > 20292207 2411496 10784768 33488471 > 20293421 2412568 10784768 33490757 > > The total difference is 2286 bytes. Given that none of other > controllers has much chance of being made a module and that we're > unlikely to add new modular controllers, the added complexity is > simply not justifiable. > > As a first step to drop cgroup module support, this patch changes the > two config options to bool from tristate and drops module related code > from the two controllers. > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> > Cc: Neil Horman <[email protected]> > Cc: Thomas Graf <[email protected]> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]> Acked-by: Neil Horman <[email protected]>
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