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Date:	Wed, 26 Sep 2012 04:23:25 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Shan Wei <shanwei88@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: remove sk_init() helper

On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 10:07 +0800, Shan Wei wrote:
> Eric Dumazet said, at 2012/9/26 5:32:
> > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> > 
> > It seems sk_init() has no value today and even does strange things :
> > 
> > # grep . /proc/sys/net/core/?mem_*
> > /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default:212992
> > /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max:131071
> > /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default:212992
> > /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max:131071
> > 
> > We can remove it completely.
> 
> Ye, I have reported this problem.
> http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2012/04/27/49
> 
> How about for small RAM ~16M?

It was maybe a concern 20 years ago, ( I ran linux on [34]86 computers
with 12 or 16 MB of memory) but this makes no sense today with linux-3.7



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