netdev - Re: [PATCH] iproute2: add dynamic index and name hashes

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Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:35:48 +0200
From:	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@...il.com>,
	Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@...edu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iproute2: add dynamic index and name hashes

> >  };
> > 
> > -static struct idxmap *idxmap[16];
> 
> This is user space, and memory space is realtively cheap. Why not just
> make initial idxmap much bigger and be done with it.

Well, we can use up to 128K interfaces and hard coding it for that number 
seems obscene to me :) But I guess a default like 16K is OK.

The patch also adds a name hash, is that part OK?

Thanks,
tavi
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