netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3] xfrm: Increase the garbage collector threshold

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Date:	Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:12:03 +0100
From:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:	Maxime Bizon <mbizon@...ebox.fr>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] xfrm: Increase the garbage collector threshold

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 03:38:43PM +0100, Maxime Bizon wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 09:21 +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> 
> Hello Steffen,
> 
> > It turned out that the current threshold before we
> > start garbage collecting is much to small for some
> > workloads, so increase it from 1024 to 32768. This
> > means that we start the garbage collector if we have
> > more than 32768 dst entries in the system and refuse
> > new allocations if we are above 65536.
> 
> sorry to dig an old thread, but could you please explain the lifetime of
> those dst entries ?
> 
> After basic tests it seems the ipv4 dst entry needs to be released first
> before the xfrm dst can be released by gc.
> 

Can you please be a bit more precise with your problem description?

This patch changes only the number of cache entries before
we start garbage collecting. It does not change anything
on the garbage collector itself.
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