Re: [PATCH] netfilter: replace horrible hack with ksize()

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On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> It decides to reallocate when the remaining space isn't enough
> to hold the new data. NF_CT_EXT_MIN_SIZE is used to make sure it
> doesn't allocate anything smaller than the minimum slab size and
> hopefully avoid reallocations in the future. Unless I'm
> misunderstanding what ksize() does, the easiest way to get
> rid of this would be to replace NF_CT_EXT_MIN_SIZE by ksize(0).

I think you are misunderstanding ksize() (see mm/slub.c::ksize() for 
example). Furthermore, I think your current reallocation code is broken 
too as explained in a previous mail and my patch fixes that to behave as 
krealloc() does.

			Pekka
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