netdev - Re: [PATCH net] inet: limit length of fragment queue hash table bucket lists

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Date:	Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:28:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jbrouer@...hat.com
Cc:	hannes@...essinduktion.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] inet: limit length of fragment queue hash table
 bucket lists

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@...hat.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:20:40 +0100

> I think it's overkill to implement this now.  I just want this patch in
> as a safeguard.
> 
> The idea I discussed with Eric, will remove the need for this patch.
> The idea is to drop the LRU lists, increase the hash size a bit, and do
> cleanup/eviction directly on the frag hash tables.  And e.g. only allow
> 5 frag queue elements in each hash bucket... but more work and testing
> is needed before I have something ready.

Fair enough.
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