Re: [PATCH + RFC] neighbour/ARP cache scalability

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

> 6) Since everybody agrees the current scheme of bucket-sizing based on
>    memory only is a bad idea, do we want to unify this bucket sizing
>    code, so people have one single knob (boot option) which they can use
>    to give the system some metrics on how large it should scale all the
>    network hash tables?

I think this is the right way to go. In fact I would go one step
farther and add a single knob for all hash tables.
This requires to put all the cut'n'pasted hash table setup
code into a single utility function that does this.

-Andi