netdev - Re: netlink: Remove max

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Date:	Fri, 1 May 2015 06:23:32 +0200
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netlink: Remove max_size setting

On 05/01/15 at 08:27am, Herbert Xu wrote:
> We currently limit the hash table size to 64K which is very bad
> as even 10 years ago it was relatively easy to generate millions
> of sockets.
> 
> Since the hash table is naturally limited by memory allocation
> failure, we don't really need an explicit limit so this patch
> removes it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...ronetworks.com>
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