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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Subject: Re: [14/14] vcompound: Avoid vmalloc for ehash_locks
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:42:08 +0100
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David Miller a =E9crit :
> From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:03:51 -0700 (PDT)
>=20
>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>
>>> But, isnt it defeating the purpose of this *particular* vmalloc() u=
se ?
>> I thought that was controlled by hashdist? I did not see it used her=
e and=20
>> so I assumed that the RR was not intended here.
>=20
> It's intended for all of the major networking hash tables.

Other networking hash tables uses alloc_large_system_hash(), which hand=
les=20
hashdist settings.

But this helper is __init only, so we can not use it for ehash_locks (c=
an be=20
allocated by DCCP module)