netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] rhashtable: Add walk iterator primitives and use them in netlink

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Message-Id: <20150202.191934.810788309905446440.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 02 Feb 2015 19:19:34 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	tgraf@...g.ch, ying.xue@...driver.com, kaber@...sh.net,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] rhashtable: Add walk iterator primitives and use
 them in netlink

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 14:13:56 +1100

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 02:42:46PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> 
>> I'm holding off on this series for now.
>> 
>> Let me know if you want me to do something different.
> 
> No problems.  Here is a new version of these two patches which
> hopefully should work on netfilter as well.
> 
> Note that the major functional difference compared to the previous
> one is that resizes are now handled properly and will cause the
> iterator to restart from scratch.
> 
> However, as with all existing hash table walker implementations,
> if you remove an element from the chain that we're walking over
> while we're waiting for user-space to give us a new buffer, then
> the walk may miss elements that are still on that chain.

Series applied to net-next.
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