[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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