From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH V2 1/9] net: frag evictor, avoid killing warm frag queues Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:03:29 -0800 Message-ID: <1354320209.20109.294.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: <20121129161019.17754.29670.stgit@dragon> <20121129161052.17754.85017.stgit@dragon> <20121129.124427.1093031685966728935.davem@davemloft.net> <1354227470.11754.348.camel@localhost> <1354230100.3299.40.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <1354269846.11754.381.camel@localhost> <1354287134.3299.67.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <1354290335.11754.447.camel@localhost> <1354293469.3299.81.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <1354311437.11754.459.camel@localhost> <1354314319.20109.179.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <1354317815.11754.498.camel@localhost> <20121130154751.06f7d3f7@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer , David Miller , fw@strlen.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, pablo@netfilter.org, tgraf@suug.ch, amwang@redhat.com, kaber@trash.net, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:38989 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753864Ab2LAADc (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:03:32 -0500 Received: by mail-pb0-f46.google.com with SMTP id wy7so779298pbc.19 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:03:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20121130154751.06f7d3f7@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 15:47 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > My $.02 is that this would be a good place to introduce lock-free auto > resizing hash lists that are in the userspace RCU library. > > It would be a non-trivial effort to put this in the kernel, but > it would let the table grow transparently. Yes, but no ;) The current hash is 64 slots, its not like anybody wants it to be one million slots.