netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Saner thash_entries default with much memory

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Date:	Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:46:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ak@...e.de
Cc:	jdelvare@...e.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Saner thash_entries default with much memory

From: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:42:05 +0100

> I still have my doubts it makes sense to have an own lock for each bucket. It 
> would be probably better to just divide the hash value through a factor
> again and then use that to index a smaller lock only table.

Yes, and that's why we do it this way in the routing cache hashes.
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