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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 23:15:43 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: nikolay@...hat.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, fw@...len.de, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net, alex.aring@...il.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/9] inet: frag: don't account number of fragment queues From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...hat.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:50:33 +0200 > From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de> > > The 'nqueues' counter is protected by the lru list lock, > once thats removed this needs to be converted to atomic > counter. Given this isn't used for anything except for > reporting it to userspace via /proc, just remove it. > > We still report the memory currently used by fragment > reassembly queues. > > Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de> It's a user visible value, you can't just change it's semantics. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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