Commit 345aa031 authored by Jarek Poplawski's avatar Jarek Poplawski Committed by David S. Miller
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ipv4: Fix fib_trie rebalancing, part 4 (root thresholds)

Pawel Staszewski wrote:
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Some time ago i report this:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6648

and now with 2.6.29 / 2.6.29.1 / 2.6.29.3 and 2.6.30 it back
dmesg output:
oprofile: using NMI interrupt.
Fix inflate_threshold_root. Now=15 size=11 bits
...
Fix inflate_threshold_root. Now=15 size=11 bits

cat /proc/net/fib_triestat
Basic info: size of leaf: 40 bytes, size of tnode: 56 bytes.
Main:
        Aver depth:     2.28
        Max depth:      6
        Leaves:         276539
        Prefixes:       289922
        Internal nodes: 66762
          1: 35046  2: 13824  3: 9508  4: 4897  5: 2331  6: 1149  7: 5
9: 1  18: 1
        Pointers: 691228
Null ptrs: 347928
Total size: 35709  kB
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It seems, the current threshold for root resizing is too aggressive,
and it causes misleading warnings during big updates, but it might be
also responsible for memory problems, especially with non-preempt
configs, when RCU freeing is del...
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