Subject: Re: order 7 allocations from xt_recent

From: Dave Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 12:11:15 -0500

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 08:55:04AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
 > On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 11:43 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > We had a report from a user that shows this code trying
 > > to do enormous allocations, which isn't going to work too well..
 > >  ...
 > > Which is initialised thus..
 > > 
 > >         ip_list_hash_size = 1 << fls(ip_list_tot);
 > > 
 > > And ip_list_tot is 10000 in this case. Hmm ?
 > > 
 > > Complete report and setup described in his bug report at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890715
 > 
 > Yes, we had a report and a patch :
 > 
 > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/248216
 > 
 > I'll send it in a more formal way.

Ah! Excellent.

That 'check size and vmalloc/kmalloc accordingly' thing seems to be a pattern
that comes up time and time again.  Is it worth maybe making a more generic
version of that instead of open-coding it each time it comes up ?

thanks,

	Dave