From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:34:53 +0200

> My main problem is being able to use a large hash table on big servers.
> 
> With power-of two constraint, plus kmalloc max size constraint, we can use 
> half the size we could.

Switch to vmalloc() at the kmalloc() cut-off point, just like
I did for the other hashes in the tree.

> Are you suggesting something like :

Not at all.

BTW, this all reminds me that we need to be careful that this
isn't allowing arbitrary users to eat up a ton of unswappable
ram.  It's pretty easy to open up a lot of listening sockets :)
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