netdev - Re: [PATCH 03/18] rhashtable: remove nulls

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Message-ID: <20180613062552.2lxhx555xgocuuyc@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Wed, 13 Jun 2018 14:25:52 +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
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/18] rhashtable: remove nulls_base and related code.

On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 12:49:07PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01 2018, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> > This "feature" is unused, undocumented, and untested and so
> > doesn't really belong.  Next patch will introduce support
> > to detect when a search gets diverted down a different chain,
> > which the common purpose of nulls markers.
> >
> > This patch actually fixes a bug too.  The table resizing allows a
> > table to grow to 2^31 buckets, but the hash is truncated to 27 bits -
> > any growth beyond 2^27 is wasteful an ineffective.
> >
> > This patch results in NULLS_MARKER(0) being used for all chains,
> > and leaves the use of rht_is_a_null() to test for it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
> 
> Hi Herbert,
>  You've acked a few patches that depends on this one, but not this
>  patch itself.  If you could ack this one, I could submit a collection
>  of patches for inclusion (after the merge window closes I guess)
>  and then have fewer outstanding.
>  This assumes you are in-principle happy with the alternative approach I
>  took to handling list-nulls.  I got the impression that it was only
>  some small details holding that back.

You can add my ack to this patch:

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Cheers,
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