linux-dev - Linux kernel development work

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2018-06-22	rhashtable: remove nulls_base and related code.	NeilBrown	1	-2/+0
	This "feature" is unused, undocumented, and untested and so doesn't really belong. A patch is under development to properly implement support for detecting 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. Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-06-22	rhashtable: split rhashtable.h	NeilBrown	1	-0/+139
	Due to the use of rhashtables in net namespaces, rhashtable.h is included in lots of the kernel, so a small changes can required a large recompilation. This makes development painful. This patch splits out rhashtable-types.h which just includes the major type declarations, and does not include (non-trivial) inline code. rhashtable.h is no longer included by anything in the include/ directory. Common include files only include rhashtable-types.h so a large recompilation is only triggered when that changes. Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>