netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH]: Dynamically sized routing cache hash table.

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Date:	Tue, 6 Mar 2007 19:55:43 +0100
From:	Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@...a.slu.se>
To:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Cc:	Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@...a.slu.se>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	robert.olsson@....uu.se, npiggin@...e.de
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH]: Dynamically sized routing cache hash table.


Eric Dumazet writes:

 > With 2^20 entries, your actual limit of 2^19 entries in root node will 
 > probably show us quite different numbers for order-1,2,3,4... tnodes

 Yeep trie will get deeper and lookup more costly as insert and delete.
 The 2^19 was that was getting memory alloction problem that I never
 sorted out.

 > Yes, numbers you gave us basically showed a big root node, and mainly leaves 
 > and very few tnodes.
 > 
 > I was interested to see the distribution in case the root-node limit is hit, 
 > and we load into the table a *lot* of entries.

 Maxlength etc... well maybe root-restriction should be removed and just have 
 maxsize instead.

 Cheers
						--ro
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