netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] inet: frag: cleanup and update

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Date:	Sun, 27 Jul 2014 22:37:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nikolay@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, fw@...len.de, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
	jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net,
	alex.aring@...il.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] inet: frag: cleanup and update

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:50:28 +0200

> The end goal of this patchset is to remove the LRU list and to move the
> frag eviction to a work queue. It also does a couple of necessary cleanups
> and fixes. Brief patch descriptions:

Ok I decided to apply this series.

Honestly I thought the frag counter would be useful for diagnosing problems
("are there a lot of frag queues bunched up on my machine?").  But whatever.

You could make it accurate again by just scanning the hash table really
quickly and counting how many entries you see, if you wanted to.
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