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From: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r242402 - in head/sys: kern vm
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On 2012-Oct-31 18:57:37 +0000, Attilio Rao <attilio@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>On 10/31/12, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Right, but you didn't make it configurable for us embedded peeps who
>> still care about memory usage.
>
>How is this possible without breaking the module/kernel ABI?

Memory usage may override ABI compatibility in an embedded environment.

>All that assuming you can actually prove a real performance loss even
>in the new cases.

The issue with padding on embedded systems is memory utilisation rather
than performance.

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Peter Jeremy

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