netdev - RE: [PATCH v6 net-next 1/5] net: add napi

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Date:	Wed, 29 May 2013 06:43:45 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Cc:	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@...ux.intel.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, HPA <hpa@...or.com>,
	Eilon Greenstien <eilong@...adcom.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>,
	Alex Rosenbaum <alexr@...lanox.com>,
	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer@...ir.org.il>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v6 net-next 1/5] net: add napi_id and hash

On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 14:09 +0100, David Laight wrote:
> > > Adds a napi_id and a hashing mechanism to lookup a napi by id.
> 
> Is this one of the places where the 'id' can be selected
> so that the 'hash' lookup never collides?

Very few devices will ever call napi_hash_add()

[ Real NIC RX queues, not virtual devices ]

We use a hash table with 256 slots, the chance of collision is about 0%

Lets not over engineer the thing before its even used.


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