netdev - Re: [PATCH] Limit size of route cache hash table

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Message-ID: <49F5550A.1050805@cosmosbay.com>
Date:	Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:47:38 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	anton@...ba.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Limit size of route cache hash table

David Miller a écrit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:12:21 +0200
> 
>> A similar patch was done for the size of TCP hash table. It was something
>> like 512 * 1024 if I remember well. IMHO this same value would be fine for
>> IP route cache.
>>
>> Yes, this was commit :
> 
> Fair enough, I'd be OK with this if you'd be too :)

Yes, as setups needing more than 512.000 slots (and 2 million entries with an
average of 4 entries per slot) are certainly able to boot with an override.

Anton, please resubmit with this 512 k limit, and my :

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>

 thank you.

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