Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario.

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Sat Apr 02 2016 - 14:34:15 EST


On Sat, 2016-04-02 at 09:46 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 11:34:10PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> >
> >
> > I was thinking about that one - it's not obvious to me from the
> > code
> > how this "explicitly checking for dups" would be done or let's say
> > how
> > rhashtable differentiates. But since it seems to work for Ben until
> > hitting a certain number of identical keys, surely that's just me
> > not
> > understanding the code rather than anything else :)
> It's really simple, rhashtable_insert_fast does not check for dups
> while rhashtable_lookup_insert_* do.

Oh, ok, thanks :)

johannes