Re: [PATCH 4/6] rhashtable: allow a walk of the hash table without missing objects.

[NeilBrown]

On Thu, Mar 29 2018, NeilBrown wrote:

>
> How about storing the hash chains in order by object address?
> Then rhashtable_walk_start() can easily find it's place regardless of
> whether the old object was still present or not, using <= on the
> address.
> "Insert" would need to record an insert location and insert there rather
> than at the head of the chain.
> I might try coding that.

Unfortunately rhltables make this approach unworkable.
However while trying to write the code I found a bug :-(
I'll post a patch for the bug, and a patch to transparently make the
current interface more reliable when the caller keeps the current
object in the table.
I think this is sufficient for all current use-cases.

Thanks,
NeilBrown

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