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Date:	Fri,  3 Aug 2012 16:23:01 +0200
From:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	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,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
Subject: [RFC v2 0/7] generic hashtable implementation

There are quite a few places in the kernel which implement a hashtable
in a very similar way. Instead of having implementations of a hashtable
all over the kernel, we can re-use the code.

This patch series introduces a very simple hashtable implementation, and
modifies three (random) modules to use it. I've limited it to 3 only
so that it would be easy to review and modify, and to show that even
at this number we already eliminate a big amount of duplicated code.

If this basic hashtable looks ok, future code will include:

 - RCU support
 - Self locking (list_bl?)
 - Converting more code to use the hashtable


Changes in V2:

 - Address review comments by Tejun Heo, Josh Triplett and Eric Beiderman (Thanks all!).
 - Rebase on top of latest master.
 - Convert more places to use the hashtable. Hopefully it will trigger more reviews by
 touching more subsystems.

Sasha Levin (7):
  hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable
  user_ns: use new hashtable implementation
  mm,ksm: use new hashtable implementation
  workqueue: use new hashtable implementation
  mm/huge_memory: use new hashtable implementation
  tracepoint: use new hashtable implementation
  net,9p: use new hashtable implementation

 include/linux/hashtable.h |   75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/tracepoint.c       |   26 ++++--------
 kernel/user.c             |   53 +++++++++-----------------
 kernel/workqueue.c        |   93 +++++++--------------------------------------
 mm/huge_memory.c          |   56 +++++----------------------
 mm/ksm.c                  |   29 ++++----------
 net/9p/error.c            |   17 ++++----
 7 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 205 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/hashtable.h

-- 
1.7.8.6

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