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Message-ID: <20150220120120.GC4586@casper.infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:01:20 +0000
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, johunt@...mai.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/3] rhashtable: better high order allocation attempts

On 02/20/15 at 12:53am, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> When trying to allocate future tables via bucket_table_alloc(), it seems
> overkill on large table shifts that we probe for kzalloc() unconditionally
> first, as it's likely to fail.
> 
> Only probe with kzalloc() for more reasonable table sizes and use vzalloc()
> either as a fallback on failure or directly in case of large table sizes.
> 
> Fixes: 7e1e77636e36 ("lib: Resizable, Scalable, Concurrent Hash Table")
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>

Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
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