linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 1/7] hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable

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Date:	Sat, 04 Aug 2012 02:33:07 +0200
From:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, mingo@...e.hu, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	aarcange@...hat.com, ericvh@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/7] hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable

On 08/04/2012 02:05 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> The problem with that code was that it doesn't work with dynamically allocated hashtables, or hashtables that grow/shrink.
> 
> Sure. But once you have that kind of complexity, why would you care
> about the trivial cases?

Because there are far more trivial cases than complex ones - I've counted 50+ of these "trivial" cases.

None of them need the complexity we're trying to deal with at the moment.
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