netdev - Re: [PATCH] udp: extend hash tables to 256 slots

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Date:	Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:33:09 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	rick.jones2@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udp: extend hash tables to 256 slots

David Miller a écrit :
> 
> That's incredible that it's been that low for so long :-)
> 
> Bug please, dynamically size this thing, maybe with a cap of say 64K
> to start with.  If you don't have time for it I'll take care of this.


Well, we can not exceed 65536 slots, given the nature of UDP protocol :)

Do you mean a static allocation at boot time with a size that can be 
overidden in cmdline(like tcp and ip route),

or something that can dynamically extends hash table at runtime ?

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