netdev - Re: [PATCH] netfilter: replace horrible hack with ksize()

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803061640380.4820@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI>
Date:	Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:41:58 +0200 (EET)
From:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
cc:	Netfilter Development Mailinglist 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>, clameter@....com,
	joe@...ches.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: replace horrible hack with ksize()

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> It decides to reallocate when the remaining space isn't enough
> to hold the new data. NF_CT_EXT_MIN_SIZE is used to make sure it
> doesn't allocate anything smaller than the minimum slab size and
> hopefully avoid reallocations in the future. Unless I'm
> misunderstanding what ksize() does, the easiest way to get
> rid of this would be to replace NF_CT_EXT_MIN_SIZE by ksize(0).

I think you are misunderstanding ksize() (see mm/slub.c::ksize() for 
example). Furthermore, I think your current reallocation code is broken 
too as explained in a previous mail and my patch fixes that to behave as 
krealloc() does.

			Pekka
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