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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:15:39 +0100 From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> To: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, johannes@...solutions.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net, johannes.berg@...el.com Subject: Re: rhashtable: Add cap on number of elements in hash table On 04/24/15 at 04:12pm, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 09:06:08AM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote: > > > > Which users are you talking about? Both Netlink and TIPC still > > have an upper limit. nft sets are controlled by privileged users. > > There is no limit in netlink apart from UINT_MAX AFAICS. Allowing > UINT_MAX entries into a hash table limited to 64K is not a good > thing. OK, so you are saying that the Netlink limit is too low? Then let's fix that. You are claiming that the rhashtable convertion removed a cap. I'm not seeing such a change. Can you point me to where netlink_insert() enforced a cap pre-rhashtable? -- 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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