On Tuesday 21 April 2015 11:37:37 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> 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.
I cannot find a good reason why David should accept such a patch. I will
therefore retract this patchset. The remaining patches will be rebased and
submitted later (during lunch time or this evening).
Kind regards,
Sven
