[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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