Re: [PATCH 3/3] net-dccp: Suppress warning about large allocationsfrom DCCP

[Mel Gorman]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 04:15:02PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:43:34 +0100
> 
> > The DCCP protocol tries to allocate some large hash tables during
> > initialisation using the largest size possible.  This can be larger than
> > what the page allocator can provide so it prints a warning. However, the
> > caller is able to handle the situation so this patch suppresses the warning.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> It's probably much more appropriate to make this stuff use
> alloc_large_system_hash(), like TCP does (see net/ipv4/tcp.c
> tcp_init()).
> 

I agree. In another mail I asked why it wasn't used. I guessed it might be
because of the __init tag but nothing stops that being deleted. It should
not take significant effort to make it usable by DCCP.

> All of this complicated DCCP hash table size computation code will
> simply disappear.  And it'll fix the warning too :-)
>  

It would be my preferred option :)

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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