[PATCH -tip v9 25/26] kprobes: Introduce kprobe cache to reduce cache misshits
Ingo Molnar
mingo@kernel.org
Fri Apr 25 08:21:00 GMT 2014
* Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> wrote:
> > So I don't think this should be a Kconfig entry, just enable it
> > unconditionally. That will further simplify the code.
>
> Hmm, it consumes some amount of memory (36KB/core) just for the case
> of several thousand of kprobes. On enterprise servers and desktop
> it's OK, no problem. But I think, some embedded systems with small
> resources will not want that. [...]
They'll just disable kprobes in general.
Really, at this point complexity is our main concern.
Thanks,
Ingo
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