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SubjectRe: [14/14] vcompound: Avoid vmalloc for ehash_locks
David Miller a écrit :
> From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:03:51 -0700 (PDT)
>
>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>
>>> But, isnt it defeating the purpose of this *particular* vmalloc() use ?
>> I thought that was controlled by hashdist? I did not see it used here and
>> so I assumed that the RR was not intended here.
>
> It's intended for all of the major networking hash tables.

Other networking hash tables uses alloc_large_system_hash(), which handles
hashdist settings.

But this helper is __init only, so we can not use it for ehash_locks (can be
allocated by DCCP module)


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