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Subject: Re: [PATCH] netns: fix net_alloc_generic()
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:07:34 +0100
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Le jeudi 26 janvier 2012 =C3=A0 22:54 -0800, Eric W. Biederman a =C3=A9=
crit :

> Now the common plumbing in net/core/net_namespace.c does count as
> complex.  The fact we missed such an obvious optimization opportunity
> for so long seems to confirm that.

This was probably masked by the 13 pointers initial value.

I find hard to believe some real setups need more than that !