netdev - Re: [v3 PATCH 7/9] rhashtable: Add multiple rehash support

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Message-ID: <20150323163709.GB20752@casper.infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 23 Mar 2015 16:37:09 +0000
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v3 PATCH 7/9] rhashtable: Add multiple rehash support

On 03/24/15 at 12:50am, Herbert Xu wrote:
> This patch adds the missing bits to allow multiple rehashes.  The
> read-side as well as remove already handle this correctly.  So it's
> only the rehasher and insertion that need modification to handle
> this.
> 
> Note that this patch doesn't actually enable it so for now rehashing
> is still only performed by the worker thread.
> 
> This patch also disables the explicit expand/shrink interface because
> the table is meant to expand and shrink automatically, and continuing
> to export these interfaces unnecessarily complicates the life of the
> rehasher since the rehash process is now composed of two parts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
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