From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 15 11:47:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2EE216A412 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:47:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from redbull.bpaserver.net (redbullneu.bpaserver.net [213.198.78.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 684E443D6A for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:47:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p54A5F174.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.241.116]) by redbull.bpaserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A90632E14F; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:47:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from webmail.leidinger.net (webmail.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.102]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59D645B4C35; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:47:30 +0100 (CET) Received: (from www@localhost) by webmail.leidinger.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id kAFBlUP6034724; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:47:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from pslux.cec.eu.int (pslux.cec.eu.int [158.169.9.14]) by webmail.leidinger.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:47:29 +0100 Message-ID: <20061115124729.e4alqrgs0o8kow8w@webmail.leidinger.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:47:29 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Garrett Cooper References: <200611141435.kAEEZqFr036308@lurza.secnetix.de> <455A16AF.5040200@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <455A16AF.5040200@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.3) / FreeBSD-7.0 X-BPAnet-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-BPAnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BPAnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-14.787, required 6, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -15.00, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME 0.00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO 0.14, TW_BP 0.08) X-BPAnet-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-Spam-Status: No X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:38:22 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bpf kernel module X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:47:38 -0000 Quoting Garrett Cooper (from Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:19:11 -0800): > Something else I should have mentioned. Statically building components > into the kernel makes operation faster overall, but increases the > required memory for your machine, whereas using modules is more > expensive time-wise, but you can load portions of the kernel piece by > piece, instead of load the entire kernel into main memory. As Oliver How did you measure/tested this and what are the numbers? Bye, Alexander. -- Each of us bears his own Hell. -- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137