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Message-ID: <20120824230740.GN21325@google.com>
Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:07:40 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/17] hashtable: introduce a small and naive
 hashtable

Hello,

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:59:25AM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Thats the thing, the amount of things of things you can do with a given bucket
> is very limited. You can't add entries to any point besides the head (without
> walking the entire list).

Kinda my point.  We already have all the hlist*() interface to deal
with such cases.  Having something which is evidently the trivial
hlist hashtable and advertises as such in the interface can be
helpful.  I think we need that more than we need anything fancy.

Heh, this is a debate about which one is less insignificant.  I can
see your point.  I'd really like to hear what others think on this.

Guys, do we want something which is evidently trivial hlist hashtable
which can use hlist_*() API directly or do we want something better
encapsulated?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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