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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: order 7 allocations from xt_recent
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:02:42 -0800
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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.