linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: compute a more reasonable default ip6_rt_max

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Message-ID: <1337978820.10135.1.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Fri, 25 May 2012 22:47:00 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Arun Sharma <asharma@...com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: compute a more reasonable default ip6_rt_max_size

On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 13:15 -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
> The algorithm is based on ipv4 and alloc_large_system_hash().
> 

Why is it needed at all ?

IPv4 has a route cache with potentially millions of entries, not IPv6.


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