Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Aug 2014 11:39:01 +0100 | From | Thomas Graf <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] nftables: Convert nft_hash to use generic rhashtable |
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On 08/01/14 at 11:17am, Patrick McHardy wrote: > On 1. August 2014 09:52:00 GMT+01:00, Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> wrote: > >If the set size is known in advance, the table is sized accordingly, > >otherwise the table size will default to 64. This is a slight change > >in behaviour as previously the default was 4 which eventually required > >many expansion iterations. > > That's assuming a sufficient number of entries will be added. I think there > will be many cases in nftables where the number will be lower. Since > expansion is not very expansive this number was chosen very deliberately > and I'd prefer to keep it. > > Other than that: > > Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
OK, I will change the nft_hash default size back to 4.
I think the expansion is more expensive than it looks though as we are potentially calling synchronize_rcu() multiple times while holding a mutex to protect from concurrent mutations.
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