From: Erik Hugne <redacted>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 11:23:02 +0200

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:40:28AM -0700, David Miller wrote:

quoted

We never shrink the hash tables once we've grown them.  That's a
reasonable way to behave.

Very well.
Currently, the refs/portID's are built up of a random part, and an index
part. The index is obtained by masking against the table size.
If the table is allowed to grow, we must remove the random part from the 
portID. Otherwise we would index out a nonexistant or wrong port
from a received packet..

But removing the random part would be a violation of the protocol spec, and
potentially break interop between other implementations (like link selection..)

We allocate ports randomly for IPV4/IPV6 sockets, you can just fine too.