Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:42:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:41:58 -0500 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:12418 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:41:21 -0500 Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 05:41:10 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20011109.054110.104033787.davem@redhat.com> To: ak@suse.de Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, anton@samba.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: speed difference between using hard-linked and modular drives? From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20011109143930.C30575@wotan.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20011109141755.A30575@wotan.suse.de> <20011109.052554.41631501.davem@redhat.com> <20011109143930.C30575@wotan.suse.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.0 on Emacs 21.0 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andi Kleen Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 14:39:30 +0100 On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:25:54AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > Why in the world do we need indirection function call pointers > in TCP to handle that? To handle the case of not having a separate TIME-WAIT table (sorry for being unclear). Or alternatively several conditionals. The TIME-WAIT half of the hash table is most useful on clients actually. I mean, just double the amount you "downsize" the TCP established hash table if it bothers you that much. Franks a lot, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/