> Mathematically the hashtable complexity is O(N). But probabilistically
> with the tuning we do on the hashtable size, the collisions will be
> nearly zero for most buckets for of most workloads. Despite the worst
> case is with all the pagecache and swapcache queued in a single linked
> list :).
Providing it handles the worst case. Some of the hash table inputs appear
to be user controllable so an end user can set out to get worst case
behaviour 8(
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