On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:21:32PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote: > > It's userspace which is managing the entries in the kernel hash table > and it has some intelligence about aging out entries (and specifically > about doing it more aggressively as the number of entries increases), > so it's not really unbounded. In practice, userspace actually keeps > the number of entries much smaller than the maximum size of the table.
Right, I thought you would have something like this. But I think you still need to rehash the table periodically, as otherwise even with a limited number of entries and attacker could construct long chains in a hash bucket, given enough time. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
