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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:25:14 +0000
Subject: Re: Limit hash table size
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To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>


Hi,

> To address Anton's concerns on PPC64, we have revised the patch to
> enforce maximum size base on number of entry instead of page order.  So
> differences in page size/pointer size etc doesn't affect the final
> calculation.  The upper bound is capped at 2M.  All numbers on x86
> remain the same as we don't want to disturb already established and
> working number.  See patch at the end of the email.  It is diff'ed
> relative to 2.6.1-mm3 tree.

That sounds reasonable to me.

Anton