netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25 9/10][NETNS][FRAGS]: Make the LRU list per namespace.

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Message-Id: <20080122.061158.237231454.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:11:58 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xemul@...nvz.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25 9/10][NETNS][FRAGS]: Make the LRU list per
 namespace.

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:08:54 +0300

> The inet_frags.lru_list is used for evicting only, so we have
> to make it per-namespace, to evict only those fragments, who's
> namespace exceeded its high threshold, but not the whole hash.
> Besides, this helps to avoid long loops  in evictor.
> 
> The spinlock is not per-namespace because it protects the 
> hash table as well, which is global.
>     
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

Applied.
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