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Date:	Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:31:13 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@...hat.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] inet: limit length of fragment queue hash table bucket lists

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 03:20:40PM +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> I think it's overkill to implement this now.  I just want this patch in
> as a safeguard.
> 
> The idea I discussed with Eric, will remove the need for this patch.
> The idea is to drop the LRU lists, increase the hash size a bit, and do
> cleanup/eviction directly on the frag hash tables.  And e.g. only allow
> 5 frag queue elements in each hash bucket... but more work and testing
> is needed before I have something ready.

Thats cool, I won't rebase the patch.

Thanks,

  Hannes

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