netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] sctp: use transport hashtable to replace association's with rhashtable

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Date:	Wed, 30 Dec 2015 14:03:43 -0500
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	lucien.xin@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, mleitner@...hat.com,
	vyasevic@...hat.com, daniel@...earbox.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] sctp: use transport hashtable to replace
 association's with rhashtable

On Wed, 2015-12-30 at 12:52 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 12:19:39 -0500
> 
> > Switching SCTP to rhashtable at this moment is premature, it is
> > still moving fast.
> 
> I completely, and totally, disagree.
> 
> rhashtable actually _needs_ a strong active user like one of the
> protocol socket hashes.
> 
> It's a step backwards to keep rhashtable in the shadows by only
> allowing certain subsystems to convert to it.  That's really
> incredibly stupid if you ask me.

You sure can disagree with me, but calling my opinion 'incredily stupid'
is not wise.

Let me check how stable is rhashtable :

# git log --oneline v4.2.. lib/rhashtable.c
179ccc0a7364 rhashtable: Kill harmless RCU warning in rhashtable_walk_init
c6ff5268293e rhashtable: Fix walker list corruption
3a324606bbab rhashtable: Enforce minimum size on initial hash table
a90099d9fabd Revert "rhashtable: Use __vmalloc with GFP_ATOMIC for table allocation"
d3716f18a7d8 rhashtable: Use __vmalloc with GFP_ATOMIC for table allocation
3cf92222a39c rhashtable: Prevent spurious EBUSY errors on insertion
7def0f952ecc lib: fix data race in rhashtable_rehash_one

Seriously, I think we can wait one release before 'en masse'
conversions.

I understand we would love to do that, but what is the hurry for SCTP,
that needed rhashtable so desperately that it could not be done before
2016 ?

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