netdev - Re: netlink: Remove max

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Date:	Sun, 03 May 2015 23:27:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	tgraf@...g.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netlink: Remove max_size setting

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 08:27:59 +0800

> We currently limit the hash table size to 64K which is very bad
> as even 10 years ago it was relatively easy to generate millions
> of sockets.
> 
> Since the hash table is naturally limited by memory allocation
> failure, we don't really need an explicit limit so this patch
> removes it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied, thanks Herbert.
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