linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 4/4] net/ipv4/fib: Don't synchronise

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Message-ID: <dff0e80c-fa15-c28b-b34f-d80f59162051@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 26 Mar 2019 11:57:42 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 4/4] net/ipv4/fib: Don't synchronise_rcu() every 512Kb

On 3/26/19 11:15 AM, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> I still wonder if it's good to expose it to userspace rather than
> shrinker, but this probably should work for me - I'll test it in near days.

I did not know about the shrinker, so can not comment if it is better or
not. If so, my patch can always be reverted since it was just applied.