netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net/rds: RDS-TCP: Always create a new rds

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Message-ID: <20150504192908.GC26844@oracle.com>
Date:	Mon, 4 May 2015 15:29:08 -0400
From:	Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	chien.yen@...cle.com, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
	ajaykumar.hotchandani@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net/rds: RDS-TCP: Always create a new rds_sock for
 an incoming connection.

On (05/04/15 14:47), David Miller wrote:
> 
> I think adding 64K of data to this module just to solve this rare
> issue is excessive.

I'd based that number mostly as a heuristic based on rds_conn_hash[].
Any suggestions for what's reasonable? 8K? Less?
(BTW, I think that should be 32K, or am I mis-counting?)

> Furthermore I don't see any locking protecting the hash table nor
> the RDS socket linkage into that table.

yes, I missed that, I'll fix that in v2.

--Sowmini

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