netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] rhashtable: remove insecure_max

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Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:48:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     fw@...len.de
Cc:     herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rhashtable: remove insecure_max_entries param

From: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:17:49 +0200

> I'd have less of an issue with this if we'd be talking about
> something computationally expensive, but this is about storing
> an extra value inside a struct just to avoid one "shr" in insert path...

Agreed, this shift is probably filling an available cpu cycle :-)