Re: [PATCH]: lru queue for ip_fragment evictor

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Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
>
> David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> >Posting a patch without describing why the change is being
> >made is always a bad idea.  I delete such emails.  I'm stupid
> >and I need to be told what a patch does and why.
> >-
> >
> >  
> >
> Sorry, i didn't meant to waste your time.
> The current ip_fragment evictor kills the oldest entry of each hash bucket
> starting with 0 instead of killing the oldest entry of all buckets. This 
> leads
> to unfair behaviour if one of the higher hash slots carries alot of 
> fragments.
> This patch holds the frag heads in a lru queue so we can kills the least
> recently used first. Each arriving fragment counts as usage.
> 

Does this not imply that the hash isn't very good?
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