From: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: compute a more reasonable default ip6_rt_max_size
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 20:54:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC1A57A.7080807@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1338003580.10135.6.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
On 5/25/12 8:39 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> But your patch is not a "modest increase", so whats the deal ?
>
> A modest increase would be 8192 instead of 4096, regardless of RAM size.
>
Yes - 8192 solves our immediate problem, but I was worrying that the
problem might resurface as ipv6 adoption becomes more widespread.
We were testing a pre-3.0 kernel that didn't have Dave's DST_NOCOUNT
patch. Will retest with that patch applied.
> More over, a boot parameter to tweak it is absolutely not needed
Agreed. Will remove that part.
Still not sure why you'd like to go for one size regardless of
totalram_pages.
-Arun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-27 3:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-25 20:15 [PATCH] net: compute a more reasonable default ip6_rt_max_size Arun Sharma
2012-05-25 20:26 ` David Miller
2012-05-25 20:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-25 22:22 ` Arun Sharma
2012-05-25 22:51 ` David Miller
2012-05-26 0:08 ` Arun Sharma
2012-05-26 0:11 ` David Miller
2012-05-26 0:44 ` Arun Sharma
2012-05-26 3:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-26 4:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-27 3:54 ` Arun Sharma [this message]
2012-05-27 13:18 ` Eric Dumazet
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2012-05-30 23:50 Lubashev, Igor
2012-06-04 19:04 ` Lubashev, Igor
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