From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPVS: Allow boot time change of hash size. Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:57:22 +0100 Message-ID: <4B41F3C2.6050006@trash.net> References: <20091229013401.GE10172@verge.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark Bergsma , netdev@vger.kernel.org, lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org, "Catalin(ux) M. BOIE" , Joseph Mack NA3T , Graeme Fowler , David Miller To: Simon Horman Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:34500 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752107Ab0ADN5Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jan 2010 08:57:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091229013401.GE10172@verge.net.au> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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?