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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, h.reindl@thelounge.net,
	Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: order 7 allocations from xt_recent
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:02:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1357236162.21409.25394.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130103171115.GA20982@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 12:11 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:

> That 'check size and vmalloc/kmalloc accordingly' thing seems to be a pattern
> that comes up time and time again.  Is it worth maybe making a more generic
> version of that instead of open-coding it each time it comes up ?

We had numerous discussions and patch submissions in the past, and this
went nowhere. I am not sure anybody wants to spend more cycles on this.

Its sad, but true.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-03 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-03 16:43 order 7 allocations from xt_recent Dave Jones
2013-01-03 16:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-03 17:11   ` Dave Jones
2013-01-03 17:26     ` Dave Jones
2013-01-03 18:00       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-03 19:51         ` Reindl Harald
2013-01-03 18:02     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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