Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] nft_hash: define max_shift rhashtable parameter

[Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>]

On 02/24/15 at 11:10am, Josh Hunt wrote:
> You must define a max_shift parameter to rhashtable or else the table cannot
> grow. This sets max_shift for nft_hash to 24, which will allow the table to
> grow to 2^24 or 16 million buckets.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
> ---
>  net/netfilter/nft_hash.c |    4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_hash.c b/net/netfilter/nft_hash.c
> index 61e6c40..839ed30 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nft_hash.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nft_hash.c
> @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
>  /* We target a hash table size of 4, element hint is 75% of final size */
>  #define NFT_HASH_ELEMENT_HINT 3
>  
> +/* Set default of 2^24 buckets or 16 million entries */
> +#define NFT_HASH_MAX_ELEMENTS 24

Maybe this should be called .._MAX_BUCKETS instead, the table
itself does not have a upper nelements limit but will not grow
above 16M buckets as the comment states correctly already.

After this change:
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>