netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/3] rhashtable: better high order allocation attempts

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Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 2015 06:54:48 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Cc:	'Daniel Borkmann' <daniel@...earbox.net>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"tgraf@...g.ch" <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	"johunt@...mai.com" <johunt@...mai.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/3] rhashtable: better high order allocation
 attempts

On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 14:27 +0000, David Laight wrote:

> I presume this code is allocating very large arrays for the base of the hash lists.
> Since there is no absolute requirement for contiguous KVA (nothing
> sequentially accesses the entire array) it can be coded differently.

vmalloc() is the proper allocator for hash table, even very big ones.

So far, no user wants huge rhashtable that would not fit in vmalloc
reserved space.

$ grep Vmalloc /proc/meminfo 
VmallocTotal:   34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed:      377492 kB
VmallocChunk:   34359350872 kB

It seems we have some room.


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