netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] sctp: use transport hashtable to replace association's with rhashtable

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Date:	Wed, 30 Dec 2015 12:19:39 -0500
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Cc:	network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
	mleitner@...hat.com, vyasevic@...hat.com, daniel@...earbox.net,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] sctp: use transport hashtable to replace
 association's with rhashtable

On Wed, 2015-12-30 at 23:50 +0800, Xin Long wrote:

> besides, this patchset will use transport hashtable to replace
> association hashtable to lookup with rhashtable api. get transport
> first then get association by t->asoc. and also it will make tcp
> style work better.

SCTP already has a hash table, why not simply changing the way items are
hashed into it ?

Sure, storing thousands of sockets in a single hash bucket is not wise.

Switching SCTP to rhashtable at this moment is premature, it is still
moving fast.


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