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Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 17:43:25 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tom Herbert <tom@...ntonium.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] rhashtable: add rhashtable_walk_prev()
On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 01:54:14PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> rhashtable_walk_prev() returns the object returned by
> the previous rhashtable_walk_next(), providing it is still in the
> table (or was during this grace period).
> This works even if rhashtable_walk_stop() and rhashtable_talk_start()
> have been called since the last rhashtable_walk_next().
>
> If there have been no calls to rhashtable_walk_next(), or if the
> object is gone from the table, then NULL is returned.
>
> This can usefully be used in a seq_file ->start() function.
> If the pos is the same as was returned by the last ->next() call,
> then rhashtable_walk_prev() can be used to re-establish the
> current location in the table. If it returns NULL, then
> rhashtable_walk_next() should be used.
>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
I will ack this if Tom is OK with replacing peek with it.
Cheers,
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