linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] RDS: convert bind hash table to re-sizable hashtable

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Message-Id: <20151018.185624.521387334647995840.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 18 Oct 2015 18:56:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ssantosh@...nel.org, David.Laight@...LAB.COM
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] RDS: convert bind hash table to re-sizable
 hashtable

From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:15:31 -0700

> From: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@...nel.org>
> 
> To further improve the RDS connection scalabilty on massive systems
> where number of sockets grows into tens of thousands  of sockets, there
> is a need of larger bind hashtable. Pre-allocated 8K or 16K table is
> not very flexible in terms of memory utilisation. The rhashtable
> infrastructure gives us the flexibility to grow the hashtbable based
> on use and also comes up with inbuilt efficient bucket(chain) handling.
> 
> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>

This looks fine as far as I can tell.
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