netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH V2 1/9] net: frag evictor, avoid killing warm frag queues

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Message-ID: <20121130154751.06f7d3f7@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:47:51 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, fw@...len.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, pablo@...filter.org, tgraf@...g.ch,
	amwang@...hat.com, kaber@...sh.net, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH V2 1/9] net: frag evictor, avoid killing warm
 frag queues

My $.02 is that this would be a good place to introduce lock-free auto
resizing hash lists that are in the userspace RCU library.

It would be a non-trivial effort to put this in the kernel, but
it would let the table grow transparently.
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