From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [next-next-2.6] net: configurable device name hash
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:38:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911112138.44074.opurdila@ixiacom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091111.112120.134023270.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 21:21:20 you wrote:
> From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:16:14 +0200
>
> > Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
>
> We're not doing this sorry.
>
> Dynamically size it at boot time or something, but a config
> option is out of the question.
>
I don't think we can dynamically size it at boot time since it depends on the
usage pattern which is impossible to determine at boot time, right?
Would it be acceptable to grow it at runtime, in list_netdevice for instance?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-11 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-11 19:16 [PATCH] [next-next-2.6] net: configurable device name hash Octavian Purdila
2009-11-11 19:21 ` David Miller
2009-11-11 19:38 ` Octavian Purdila [this message]
2009-11-11 20:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-11-11 20:32 ` Octavian Purdila
2009-11-11 20:42 ` David Miller
2009-11-11 21:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-11 21:47 ` Octavian Purdila
2009-11-11 22:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-12 2:36 ` David Miller
2009-11-12 12:46 ` Mark Smith
2009-11-12 14:09 ` Eric Dumazet
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