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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: ok, final sockhash changes, new diff
To: davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu (David S. Miller)
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In some mail from David S. Miller, sie said:
> 
>    From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
>    Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 00:24:04 +1100 (EDT)
> 
>    > [the hash table should be kept compressed to avoid cache pollution]
> 
>    Why can't it "autoconfigure" according to the size of your RAM ?
> 
>    i.e. more RAM => bigger server => more users/network connections
> 
> Extra silly cycles in the critical code path.

Yes, if you were doing it all the time to make sure the table was a good
size, but I was referring to doing it once - at boot.  (I should ahve made
myself more clear).