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* [RFC v3 0/7] generic hashtable implementation
@ 2012-08-07  0:45 ` Sasha Levin
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From: Sasha Levin @ 2012-08-07  0:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: torvalds
  Cc: tj, akpm, linux-kernel, linux-mm, paul.gortmaker, davem, rostedt,
	mingo, ebiederm, aarcange, ericvh, netdev, josh, eric.dumazet,
	mathieu.desnoyers, Sasha Levin

There are quite a few places in the kernel which implement a hashtable
in a very similar way. Instead of having implementations of a hashtable
all over the kernel, we can re-use the code.

This patch series introduces a very simple hashtable implementation, and
modifies three (random) modules to use it. I've limited it to 3 only
so that it would be easy to review and modify, and to show that even
at this number we already eliminate a big amount of duplicated code.

If this basic hashtable looks ok, future code will include:

 - RCU support
 - Self locking (list_bl?)
 - Converting more code to use the hashtable


Changes in V3:

 - Address review comments by Tejun Heo, Josh Triplett, Eric Beiderman,
   Mathieu Desnoyers, Eric Dumazet and Linus Torvalds.
 - Removed hash_get due to being too Gandalf.
 - Rewrote the user namespaces hash implementation.
 - Hashtable went back to being a simple array of buckets, but without any
   of the macro tricks to get the size automatically.
 - Optimize hasing if key is 32 bits long.

Changes in V2:

 - Address review comments by Tejun Heo, Josh Triplett and Eric Beiderman (Thanks all!).
 - Rebase on top of latest master.
 - Convert more places to use the hashtable. Hopefully it will trigger more reviews by
 touching more subsystems.


Sasha Levin (7):
  hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable
  user_ns: use new hashtable implementation
  mm,ksm: use new hashtable implementation
  workqueue: use new hashtable implementation
  mm/huge_memory: use new hashtable implementation
  tracepoint: use new hashtable implementation
  net,9p: use new hashtable implementation

 include/linux/hashtable.h |   82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/tracepoint.c       |   26 +++++--------
 kernel/user.c             |   35 ++++++++----------
 kernel/workqueue.c        |   89 +++++++++------------------------------------
 mm/huge_memory.c          |   56 +++++++---------------------
 mm/ksm.c                  |   31 +++++++---------
 net/9p/error.c            |   21 +++++------
 7 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 178 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/hashtable.h

-- 
1.7.8.6


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2012-08-07  0:45 ` [RFC v3 1/7] hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  0:45   ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  1:19   ` Joe Perches
2012-08-07  1:19     ` Joe Perches
2012-08-07  1:19     ` Joe Perches
2012-08-07  1:48   ` Li Wei
2012-08-07  1:48     ` Li Wei
2012-08-07  1:54     ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  1:54       ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  2:55   ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-07  2:55     ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-07  9:49     ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  9:49       ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  0:45 ` [RFC v3 2/7] user_ns: use new hashtable implementation Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  0:45   ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  0:45 ` [RFC v3 3/7] mm,ksm: " Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  0:45   ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  0:45 ` [RFC v3 4/7] workqueue: " Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  0:45   ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  0:45 ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  0:45   ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  1:19   ` Joe Perches
2012-08-07  1:19     ` Joe Perches
2012-08-07  1:19     ` Joe Perches
2012-08-07  0:45 ` [RFC v3 5/7] mm/huge_memory: " Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  0:45   ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  0:45 ` [RFC v3 6/7] tracepoint: " Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  0:45   ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  0:45 ` [RFC v3 7/7] net,9p: " Sasha Levin
2012-08-07  0:45   ` Sasha Levin

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