netdev - Re: [ANN] Unified dynamic storage for different socket types instead of separate hash tables.

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Message-Id: <20070322.120346.41643926.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:03:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	johnpol@....mipt.ru
Cc:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANN] Unified dynamic storage for different socket types
 instead of separate hash tables.

From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:59:44 +0300

> Yes, current code does not support statistics.
> Existing stats run over whole hash table, I do not like such approach,
> so I will introduce a per-protocol lists of all sockets, which can be
> accessed from statistics code, but it is next step.

We are _NOT_ bloating up the socket structure even more because your
data structure does not support a "iterate over all objects"
operation.

We got rid of the linked list of all sockets per-protocol precisely
for this reason 10 years ago, you cannot add it back, sorry.
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