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Date:	Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:23:33 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"edumazet@...gle.com" <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"john.r.fastabend@...el.com" <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
	"josh@...htriplett.org" <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	"netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org" <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] rhashtable: Per bucket locks & deferred
 expansion/shrinking

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 01:01:21AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> One unconventional way of handling this is to associate the scan with
> a one-to-one resize operation.  This can be implemented to have the
> effect of taking a snapshot of the table.

The problem is that in general (not for netfilter, but certainly
other rhashtable users such as netlink) dumps/walks can be started
by ordinary users and I don't think we can afford creating a
snapshot for each one, or can we?

Cheers,
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