Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:35:11 +1000 | From | David Gibson <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 3/4] tuntap: reduce the size of tun_struct by using flex array |
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On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:07:19 +0530 Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com> wrote:
> This patch switches to flex array to implement the flow caches, it brings > several advantages: > > - Reduce the size of the tun_struct structure, which allows us to increase the > upper limit of queues in future. > - Avoid higher order memory allocation. It will be useful when switching to > pure hashing in flow cache which may demand a larger size array in future. > > After this patch, the size of tun_struct on x86_64 reduced from 8512 to > 328 > > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <dgibson@redhat.com>
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