netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] packet: Add fanout support.

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Date:	Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:36:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	victor@...iniac.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] packet: Add fanout support.

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 06:33:49 +0200

> Le lundi 04 juillet 2011 à 21:20 -0700, David Miller a écrit :
>> +#define PACKET_FANOUT_MAX	2048
 ...
>> +	struct sock		*arr[PACKET_FANOUT_MAX];
> 
> Thats about 16Kbytes, yet you use kzalloc()
> 
>> +	spinlock_t		lock;
>> +	atomic_t		sk_ref;
>> +	struct packet_type	prot_hook ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
>> +};
>> +
> 
> Maybe use a dynamic array ? I suspect most uses wont even reach 16
> sockets anyway...

True.  Another option, for now, is to just make PACKET_FANOUT_MAX more
reasonable.  I'll make it something like 256.

Thanks!

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