Re: kern/55777: more rump fixes

[Ruslan Nikolaev <nruslan_devel%yahoo.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/55777; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ruslan Nikolaev <nruslan_devel%yahoo.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/55777: more rump fixes
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 20:00:14 -0500

 Thanks for the feedback! I'll see if I can fix it. In the meantime, I 
 also posted one more SMP-related patch: kern/55781
 
 We also have rump (glue) files for new drivers such as ixgbe, nvme, etc 
 -- we will post them as well.
 
 
 On 11/3/20 12:10 PM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/55777; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
 > To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>
 > Cc: Ruslan Nikolaev <nruslan_devel%yahoo.com@localhost>,
 >   gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
 >   kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
 >   gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
 >   netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Subject: Re: kern/55777: more rump fixes
 > Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 12:06:50 -0500
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 >   > On Nov 3, 2020, at 11:17 AM, Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost> wrote:
 >   >=20
 >   > Seems like we should just put it all into a single rump library.  If =
 >   it's a static link, it'll naturally reduce the code slurped in, and if =
 >   it's a shared library, who cares?
 >   
 >   Unfortunately in practice it does not reduce the code slurped in because =
 >   of the same variable interdependencies. It is also better to reduce the =
 >   memory size of the image so that the minimum memory requirements to run =
 >   the process are smaller. We have been fixing those duplications as we =
 >   find them, but we have not proactively tried to eliminate them.
 >   
 >   christos
 >