netdev - Re: order 7 allocations from xt

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Message-ID: <1357236162.21409.25394.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:02:42 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, h.reindl@...lounge.net,
	Fedora Kernel Team <kernel-team@...oraproject.org>
Subject: Re: order 7 allocations from xt_recent

On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 12:11 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:

> That 'check size and vmalloc/kmalloc accordingly' thing seems to be a pattern
> that comes up time and time again.  Is it worth maybe making a more generic
> version of that instead of open-coding it each time it comes up ?

We had numerous discussions and patch submissions in the past, and this
went nowhere. I am not sure anybody wants to spend more cycles on this.

Its sad, but true.


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