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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Saner thash_entries default with much memory
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:34:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071026153416.GA23491@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710261721.32019.jdelvare@suse.de>

On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:21:31PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> I know that /proc/net/tcp is
> deprecated in favor of tcp_diag, however at the moment netstat only
> knows of the former.

Even tcp_diag will be slow when all slots are dumped. It's a fundamental
problem of the data structure. /proc has slightly higher constant
factor overhead, that's all.

Also there are some tricks to make it a little faster (e.g.
the old patches to not take the lock for empty buckets) but again
it's only just patching constant factors, not the fundamental
scaling issue.

> I propose 2 millions of entries as the arbitrary high limit. This

It's probably still far too large.

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-26 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-26 15:21 [PATCH] net: Saner thash_entries default with much memory Jean Delvare
2007-10-26 15:34 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-10-30  7:57   ` David Miller
2007-10-30 13:18     ` Jean Delvare
2007-10-30 21:11       ` David Miller
2007-10-30 20:42     ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-30 21:46       ` David Miller
2007-10-26 15:55 ` akepner

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