On Tuesday 21 April 2015 10:42:42 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> It is unnecessary to allocate an extra memory region for hashtables and the
> corresponding locks. This brings the hashes used in batman-adv slightly in
> the direction of the common statically sized hash table implementation.
> More common hashtable functionality cannot be used batman-adv wide because
> the simple hashtable and rhashtable implementations don't provide bucket
> based locking.
I was now informed that the rhashtable can now (Linux 4.0) support per bucket
locks. The last statement is therefore wrong since the last Linux release.
Kind regards,
Sven
