netdev - Re: [PATCH - revised] rhashtable: detect when object movement might have invalidated a lookup

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Date:   Thu, 19 Jul 2018 23:43:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     neilb@...e.com
Cc:     herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, tgraf@...g.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH - revised] rhashtable: detect when object movement
 might have invalidated a lookup

From: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:30:34 +1000

> Does this ruling also apply to the bit-spin-lock changes and the
> per-cpu-counter changes that I have proposed?  These improve
> scalability when updates dominate.  Not having these in mainline
> would mean I need to carry a separate rhashtables implementation for
> lustre, which means code diversion which isn't healthy in the long
> run.

If it helps existing rhashtable users generally, then it is fine,
since it will actually be tested by upstream users.

Thanks.