docs: keep track of when prealloc of map elements were introduced
authorJesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Fri, 3 Feb 2017 07:46:48 +0000 (08:46 +0100)
committerJesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Fri, 3 Feb 2017 07:46:48 +0000 (08:46 +0100)
commite682846da0d2dca543254cb56c7dedc19db34115
tree85dc955f919dbd87a66bd7765f76bb044c6c877d
parente1f7462ceea60297b8ceb8e4dd9927069fce46de
docs: keep track of when prealloc of map elements were introduced

Kernel v4.6-rc1~91^2~108^2~6
 commit 6c9059817432 ("bpf: pre-allocate hash map elements")

Introduced default preallocation of mem elements to solve a deadlock
(when kprobe'ing the memory allocator itself).

This change is also a performance enhancement.

The commit also introduced a map_flags on BPF_MAP_CREATE, which can disable
this preallocation again BPF_F_NO_PREALLOC.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
docs/kernel-versions.md