Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario.

[David Miller]

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 11:14:12 +0200

> On Tue, 2016-03-29 at 09:16 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>> Looks like rhashtable has too much policy in it to properly deal with
>> cases where there are too many hash collisions, so I am going to work
>> on reverting it's use in mac80211.
> 
> I'm not really all that happy with that approach - can't we fix the
> rhashtable? It's a pretty rare corner case that many keys really are
> identical and no kind of hash algorithm, but it seems much better to
> still deal with it than to remove the rhashtable usage and go back to
> hand-rolling something.

Yeah reverting seems like a really idiotic way to deal with the issue.