Re: [PATCH - revised] rhashtable: detect when object movement might have invalidated a lookup

[NeilBrown]

On Thu, Jul 19 2018, David Miller wrote:

> From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:30:34 +1000
>
>> Does this ruling also apply to the bit-spin-lock changes and the
>> per-cpu-counter changes that I have proposed?  These improve
>> scalability when updates dominate.  Not having these in mainline
>> would mean I need to carry a separate rhashtables implementation for
>> lustre, which means code diversion which isn't healthy in the long
>> run.
>
> If it helps existing rhashtable users generally, then it is fine,
> since it will actually be tested by upstream users.

Good, thanks.

NeilBrown

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