Re: [RFC/TOY]Extensible hashing and RCU

2007-02-05 Thread akepner
On Sat, 4 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed in an LCA talk mention that apprently extensible hashing with RCU access is an unsolved problem. Here's an idea for solving it. I'm assuming the table is a power of 2 in size with open chaining for collisions. When the chains get too long,

Re: [RFC/TOY]Extensible hashing and RCU

2007-02-06 Thread linux
> For purposes of discussion, I've attached a "toy" implementation > for doing dynamic resizing of a hashtable. It is useless, except > as a proof of concept. > > I think this is very similar to what you are describing, no? Er... not quite; that has a lot more overhead than what I was thinking ab