[ovs-dev] [PATCH v3] datapath: Increase maximum allocation size of action list.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Sat Feb 23 01:07:06 UTC 2013


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com> wrote:
> The switch to flow based tunneling increased the size of each output
> action in the flow action list.  In extreme cases, this can result
> in the action list exceeding the maximum buffer size.
>
> This doubles the maximum buffer size to compensate for the increase
> in action size.  In the common case, most allocations will be
> less than a page and those uses kmalloc.  Therefore, for the majority
> of situations, this will have no impact.
>
> Bug #15203
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com>

Looks good, thanks.

Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>



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