On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 10:23:21PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > Hmmm, let me think about this.
Ok, I'm looking forward to your thoughts (which might already be in my inbox, I just recovered from jetlag back to .de). > > - nl_table statically allocated > > Please don't do that. Even though it's BSS space, it takes up > critical kernel image area at run time, which is mapped using > locked TLB entries on some platforms. This is why I made it > a pointer. Ok, so the general rule should be to not have such statically BSS allocated arrays at all, but rather allocate them at runtime? I always thought it would be better to putt them in BSS. Netfilter has a number of them sitting in kernel modules (such as the protocol helper array, etc.) -- - Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://netfilter.org/ ============================================================================ "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie
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