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In total, we register 447 property informations. Out of these,
326 are plain, GObject property based without special implementations.
The NMSettInfoProperty had all function pointers directly embedded,
currently this amounts to 5 function pointers and the "dbus_type" field.
That means, at runtime we have 326 times trivial implementations with
waste 326*6*8 bytes of NULL pointers. We can compact these by moving
them to a separate structure.
Before:
447 * 5 function pointers
447 * "dbus_type" pointer
= 2682 pointers
After:
447 * 1 pointers (for NMSettInfoProperty.property_type)
89 * 6 pointers (for the distinct NMSettInfoPropertType data)
= 981 pointers
So, in total this saves 13608 byes of runtime memory (on 64 bit arch).
The 89 NMSettInfoPropertType instances are the remaining distinct instances.
Note that every NMSettInfoProperty has a "property_type" pointer, but most of them are
shared. That is because the underlying type and the operations are the same.
Also nice is that the NMSettInfoPropertType are actually constant,
static fields and initialized very early.
This change also makes sense form a design point of view. Previously,
NMSettInfoProperty contained both per-property data (the "name") but
also the behavior. Now, the "behavioral" part is moved to a separate
structure (where it is also shared). That means, the parts that are
concerned with the type of the property (the behavior) are separate
from the actual data of the property.
****************** NetworkManager core daemon has moved to gitlab.freedesktop.org! git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.git ****************** Networking that Just Works -------------------------- NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available at all times. The point of NetworkManager is to make networking configuration and setup as painless and automatic as possible. NetworkManager is intended to replace default route, replace other routes, set IP addresses, and in general configure networking as NM sees fit (with the possibility of manual override as necessary). In effect, the goal of NetworkManager is to make networking Just Work with a minimum of user hassle, but still allow customization and a high level of manual network control. If you have special needs, we'd like to hear about them, but understand that NetworkManager is not intended for every use-case. NetworkManager will attempt to keep every network device in the system up and active, as long as the device is available for use (has a cable plugged in, the killswitch isn't turned on, etc). Network connections can be set to 'autoconnect', meaning that NetworkManager will make that connection active whenever it and the hardware is available. "Settings services" store lists of user- or administrator-defined "connections", which contain all the settings and parameters required to connect to a specific network. NetworkManager will _never_ activate a connection that is not in this list, or that the user has not directed NetworkManager to connect to. How it works: The NetworkManager daemon runs as a privileged service (since it must access and control hardware), but provides a D-Bus interface on the system bus to allow for fine-grained control of networking. NetworkManager does not store connections or settings, it is only the mechanism by which those connections are selected and activated. To store pre-defined network connections, two separate services, the "system settings service" and the "user settings service" store connection information and provide these to NetworkManager, also via D-Bus. Each settings service can determine how and where it persistently stores the connection information; for example, the GNOME applet stores its configuration in GConf, and the system settings service stores its config in distro-specific formats, or in a distro- agnostic format, depending on user/administrator preference. A variety of other system services are used by NetworkManager to provide network functionality: wpa_supplicant for wireless connections and 802.1x wired connections, pppd for PPP and mobile broadband connections, DHCP clients for dynamic IP addressing, dnsmasq for proxy nameserver and DHCP server functionality for internet connection sharing, and avahi-autoipd for IPv4 link-local addresses. Most communication with these daemons occurs, again, via D-Bus. Why doesn't my network Just Work? Driver problems are the #1 cause of why NetworkManager sometimes fails to connect to wireless networks. Often, the driver simply doesn't behave in a consistent manner, or is just plain buggy. NetworkManager supports _only_ those drivers that are shipped with the upstream Linux kernel, because only those drivers can be easily fixed and debugged. ndiswrapper, vendor binary drivers, or other out-of-tree drivers may or may not work well with NetworkManager, precisely because they have not been vetted and improved by the open-source community, and because problems in these drivers usually cannot be fixed. Sometimes, command-line tools like 'iwconfig' will work, but NetworkManager will fail. This is again often due to buggy drivers, because these drivers simply aren't expecting the dynamic requests that NetworkManager and wpa_supplicant make. Driver bugs should be filed in the bug tracker of the distribution being run, since often distributions customize their kernel and drivers. Sometimes, it really is NetworkManager's fault. If you think that's the case, please file a bug at: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/issues Attaching NetworkManager debug logs from the journal (or wherever your distribution directs syslog's 'daemon' facility output, as /var/log/messages or /var/log/daemon.log) is often very helpful, and (if you can get) a working wpa_supplicant config file helps enormously. See the logging section of file contrib/fedora/rpm/NetworkManager.conf for how to enable debug logging in NetworkManager.