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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH V2 1/9] net: frag evictor, avoid killing warm
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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:47:51 -0800
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My $.02 is that this would be a good place to introduce lock-free auto
resizing hash lists that are in the userspace RCU library.

It would be a non-trivial effort to put this in the kernel, but
it would let the table grow transparently.