netdev - Re: [PATCH] IPVS: logging sizeof(struct ip_vs

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:25:25 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Hannes Eder <heder@...gle.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, lvs-users@...uxvirtualserver.org,
	malcolm@...dbalancer.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPVS: logging sizeof(struct ip_vs_conn) on startup

Hannes Eder a écrit :
> No more guessing, how much memory is used by IPVS for a connection.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <heder@...gle.com>
> ---
>  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
> index b021464..5b0997c 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
> @@ -1475,7 +1475,8 @@ static int __init ip_vs_init(void)
>  		goto cleanup_conn;
>  	}
>  
> -	IP_VS_INFO("ipvs loaded.\n");
> +	IP_VS_INFO("ipvs loaded (using %Zd bytes/connection).\n",
> +	       sizeof(struct ip_vs_conn));
>  	return ret;
>  
>    cleanup_conn:

Well, ip_vs_conn_cache uses SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, so this should be rounded up
to L1 cache size. Or add "at least" like in line 1080
of net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c :

	IP_VS_DBG(0, "Each connection entry needs %Zd bytes at least\n",
		  sizeof(struct ip_vs_conn));

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