netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: mesh: convert path table to rhashtable

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Date:	Wed, 02 Mar 2016 14:43:59 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	me@...copeland.com
Cc:	johannes@...solutions.net, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	tgraf@...g.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mac80211: mesh: convert path table to rhashtable

From: Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>
Date: Wed,  2 Mar 2016 10:09:20 -0500

> In the time since the mesh path table was implemented as an
> RCU-traversable, dynamically growing hash table, a generic RCU
> hashtable implementation was added to the kernel.
> 
> Switch the mesh path table over to rhashtable to remove some code
> and also gain some features like automatic shrinking.
> 
> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>

Johannes, feel free to take both patches via your tree, thanks.