netdev - Re: [RFC] sched: CHOKe packet scheduler (v0.2)

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Date:	Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:37:23 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] sched: CHOKe packet scheduler (v0.2)

Le jeudi 06 janvier 2011 à 20:55 -0800, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> The problem is that large tables of pointers in kernel require either
> contiguous allocation or some indirect table algorithm.
> 

By large table, how many slots do you envision ?

1024 ?
8192 ?
65536 ?

Even insane value like 65536 is OK most of the time.
if kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) fails, try vmalloc().

We are in process context and are allowed to sleep when qdisc is
created.

Anyway, accessing a random skb in a list of 65536 skbs is just crazy.


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