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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH + RFC] neighbour/ARP cache scalability
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:58:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040921085809.GD8058@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040920225140.GH1307@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org>

> 6) Since everybody agrees the current scheme of bucket-sizing based on
>    memory only is a bad idea, do we want to unify this bucket sizing
>    code, so people have one single knob (boot option) which they can use
>    to give the system some metrics on how large it should scale all the
>    network hash tables?

I think this is the right way to go. In fact I would go one step
farther and add a single knob for all hash tables.
This requires to put all the cut'n'pasted hash table setup
code into a single utility function that does this.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-21  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-20 22:51 [PATCH + RFC] neighbour/ARP cache scalability Harald Welte
2004-09-21  6:29 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-21  7:04 ` Andre Tomt
2004-09-21  7:37 ` Robert Olsson
2004-09-21  8:58 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-09-21 11:19 ` Pekka Savola
2004-09-21 13:49   ` Harald Welte
2004-09-21 14:10     ` Pekka Savola
2004-09-21 15:14     ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-09-21 15:36       ` Robert Olsson
2004-09-21 15:59         ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-09-21 15:58       ` Pekka Savola
2004-09-21 16:04         ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-09-21 16:39           ` Tim Gardner
2004-09-21 17:31             ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-21 17:58               ` Tim Gardner
2004-09-21 18:15                 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-21 20:34                   ` Harald Welte
2004-09-21 20:58                     ` Tim Gardner
2004-09-22  1:14                       ` Harald Welte
2004-09-22  3:31 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-22 11:14   ` Harald Welte
2004-09-24  5:53     ` David S. Miller
2004-09-24  7:14     ` Glen Turner
2004-09-24  5:47   ` David S. Miller

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