netdev - Re: RFC: memory leak in udp_table

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Date:	Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:40:23 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com, tim.bird@...sony.com,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: memory leak in udp_table_init

Le dimanche 26 février 2012 à 14:20 -0500, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 06:19:42 +0100
> 
> > [PATCH] mm: add a low limit to alloc_large_system_hash
> 
> I think you should just use zero as the default minimum for all
> call sites except this UDP case we are trying to fix.
> 
> For example I see you used 16 for kernel/pid.c
> 
> Let's not try to do unrelated changes like that now, we can do such
> tweaks later.

It was to match the comment we have few lines above :

/*
 * The pid hash table is scaled according to the amount of memory in the
 * machine.  From a minimum of 16 slots up to 4096 slots at one gigabyte or
 * more.
 */


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