Re: Kernel size increase of +256 KiB (was: Re: RPCSEC_GSS: Share allcredential caches on a per-transport basis)

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Myklebust, Trond
<Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Only for the modular case. What about builtin, e.g. for nfsroot?
>>
>> Or is it better to not build in NFS_V4 support in that case?
>>
>> config NFS_V4
>>           If unsure, say Y.
>>
>> config NFSD_V4
>>           If unsure, say N.
>>
>> So that's why my defconfig has NFS_V4 but not NFSD_V4.
>
> It should be possible now to compile in NFSv3 support (and/or NFSv2),
> while keeping NFSv4 a module. That will usually result in
> CONFIG_SUNRPC_GSS=m...

Indeed. Making NFS_V4 modular saves 102 KiB, i.e. 2.5% of a typical
almost-4-MiB kernel image!

> Of course, if your defconfig doesn't have module support then, yes, your
> only option to avoid compiling in rpcsec_gss is to not select NFSv4 at
> all.

It has. But it needs everything to boot (block, net, nfs) as built-in.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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