netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/5] rhashtable: New features in walk and bucket

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Message-Id: <20171205.144758.229053819644783992.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:47:58 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tom@...ntonium.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
        rohit@...ntonium.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/5] rhashtable: New features in walk and
 bucket 

From: Tom Herbert <tom@...ntonium.net>
Date: Mon,  4 Dec 2017 10:31:40 -0800

> This patch contains some changes to related rhashtable:
> 
> - Above allow rhashtable_walk_start to return void
> - Add a functon to peek at the next entry during a walk
> - Abstract out function to compute a has for a table
> - A library function to alloc a spinlocks bucket array
> - Call the above function for rhashtable locks allocation
> 
> Tested: Exercised using various operations on an ILA xlat
> table.
> 
> v2:
>  - Apply feedback from Herbert. Don't change semantics of resize
>    event reporting and -EAGAIN, just simplify API for callers that
>    ignore those.
>  - Add end_of_table in iter to reliably tell when the iterator has
>    reached to the eno.

I'll allow Herbert time to think about this some more as he requested
in comments against the first version of this series.

Thanks.