netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] rds: reduce memory footprint for RDS when transport is RDMA

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Date:   Thu, 03 Aug 2017 09:28:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
        santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rds: reduce memory footprint for RDS when
 transport is RDMA

From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
Date: Wed,  2 Aug 2017 10:34:31 -0700

> RDS over IB does not use multipath RDS, so the array
> of additional rds_conn_path structures is always superfluous
> in this case. Reduce the memory footprint of the rds module
> by making this a dynamic allocation predicated on whether
> the transport is mp_capable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
> Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
> Tested-by: Efrain Galaviz <efrain.galaviz@...cle.com>

Applied, thank you.