From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Horman Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPVS: Allow boot time change of hash size. Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:24:45 +1100 Message-ID: <20100104232445.GC2554@verge.net.au> References: <20091229013401.GE10172@verge.net.au> <4B41F3C2.6050006@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Mark Bergsma , netdev@vger.kernel.org, lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org, "Catalin(ux) M. BOIE" , Joseph Mack NA3T , Graeme Fowler , David Miller To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B41F3C2.6050006@trash.net> Sender: lvs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 02:57:22PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Simon Horman wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 07:49:38PM +0100, Mark Bergsma wrote: > >> On 03-12-08 01:37, David Miller wrote: > >>> From: "Catalin(ux) M. BOIE" > >>> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:16:04 -0700 (MST) > >>>> I was looking for anything that could get me past of 88.000 request per > >>>> seconds. > >>>> The help text told me to raise that value if I have big number of > >>>> connections. I just needed an easy way to test. > >>> You're just repeating what I said, you "think" it should be > >>> changed and as a result you are wasting everyones time. > >>> > >>> You don't actually "know", you're just guessing using random > >>> snippets from documentation rather than good hard evidence of > >>> a need. > >> Hello, > >> > >> I just found this year-old thread about a patch allowing the IPVS > >> connection hash table size to be set at load time by a module parameter. > >> Apparently the conclusion reached was that allowing this configuration > >> setting to be changed would be useless, and that the poster's > >> performance problems would likely lie elsewhere, since he had no > >> evidence it was caused by the hash table size. > > > > Hi Mark, > > > > thanks for your test results. I have added them to the patch. > > Feel free to edit the text. > > Just wondering because of this comment - do you want me to apply this > patch? I was fishing for an response from Mark. I'll resubmit it properly as that doesn't seem to be forthcoming.