Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752136AbYFCHyk (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 03:54:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751019AbYFCHyc (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 03:54:32 -0400 Received: from smtp-out003.kontent.com ([81.88.40.217]:36007 "EHLO smtp-out003.kontent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751094AbYFCHyb (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 03:54:31 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum Organization: NOvell To: Sitsofe Wheeler Subject: Re: [Question] about modules/inline benefits Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:54:41 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <4844C4D9.8030502@gawab.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806030954.42188.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 564 Lines: 15 Am Dienstag 03 Juni 2008 09:28:59 schrieb Sitsofe Wheeler: > Modules allow you to support more hardware as there is a maximum size of the > core kernel image. But you pay for every module with half a page of unused RAM and module code will be in vmalloced memory thus increases TLB pressure a bit. Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/