netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 3/3] rhashtable: Add scored lookups

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Date:	Wed, 15 Jul 2015 08:18:54 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, tgraf@...g.ch,
	kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 3/3] rhashtable: Add scored lookups

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 04:45:49PM -0700, Tom Herbert wrote:
>
> +		} else if (score == best_score) {
> +			matches++;
> +			if (reciprocal_scale(khash, matches) == 0)
> +				result = he;
> +			khash = next_pseudo_random32(khash);
> +		}

Note that during a rehash you can encounter the same object multiple
times, does this logic still work in that case?

Cheers,
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