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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2009-10-07 00:37:59 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-10-07 22:00:22 -0700
commitf86dcc5aa8c7908f2c287e7a211228df599e3e71 (patch)
tree1721c94d0254b337b0668b2e331771dfef4b142d /Documentation
parent8a6dfd43d1891882f8ca05d73aa7735fb0edae3b (diff)
udp: dynamically size hash tables at boot time
UDP_HTABLE_SIZE was initialy defined to 128, which is a bit small for several setups. 4000 active UDP sockets -> 32 sockets per chain in average. An incoming frame has to lookup all sockets to find best match, so long chains hurt latency. Instead of a fixed size hash table that cant be perfect for every needs, let UDP stack choose its table size at boot time like tcp/ip route, using alloc_large_system_hash() helper Add an optional boot parameter, uhash_entries=x so that an admin can force a size between 256 and 65536 if needed, like thash_entries and rhash_entries. dmesg logs two new lines : [ 0.647039] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) [ 0.647099] UDP Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Maximal size on 64bit arches would be 65536 slots, ie 1 MBytes for non debugging spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 6fa7292947e..02df20be776 100644
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@@ -2589,6 +2589,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
uart6850= [HW,OSS]
Format: <io>,<irq>
+ uhash_entries= [KNL,NET]
+ Set number of hash buckets for UDP/UDP-Lite connections
+
uhci-hcd.ignore_oc=
[USB] Ignore overcurrent events (default N).
Some badly-designed motherboards generate lots of