netdev - Re: Extensible hashing and RCU

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Date:	Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:44:41 -0800
From:	"Michael K. Edwards" <medwards.linux@...il.com>
To:	"Eric Dumazet" <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Cc:	"Evgeniy Polyakov" <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, akepner@....com,
	linux@...izon.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, bcrl@...ck.org
Subject: Re: Extensible hashing and RCU

All right, Eric, you and me so clevvah, let's embarrass our own selves
designing this thing in public instead of picking on poor Evgeniy.
Which would you rather RCU, a 2-left hash or a splay tree?  2-left
hash gets you excellent occupation fraction before the first real
collision, so you can be utterly stupid about collisions in the second
hash table (just toss all double collisions in an overflow radix
tree).  Splay tree is a lot bigger bite to chew initially, but it gets
you a hot set that's at least sometimes warm in cache, and it's easier
to think about how to RCU it, and it doubles as a priority queue.  You
pick.

Cheers,
- Michael
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