From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Common hash table implementation
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 12:23:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m15O8ta-000CFtC@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Jul 2001 18:34:10 MST." <20010717183410.S29668@work.bitmover.com>
In message <20010717183410.S29668@work.bitmover.com> you write:
> We've got a fairly nice hash table interface in BitKeeper that we'd be
> happy to provide under the GPL. I've always thought it would be cool
> to have it in the kernel, we use it everywhere.
>
> http://bitmover.com:8888//home/bk/bugfixes/src/src/mdbm
Hmmm.... cf. tdb on sourceforge. Although having code to be mmap or
read/write backed is overkill in the kernel.
Interestingly, there's an unused, undocumented hash table interface in
include/linux/ghash.h.
Cheers,
Rusty.
--
Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-22 4:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-18 0:57 Common hash table implementation Brian J. Watson
2001-07-18 1:34 ` Larry McVoy
2001-07-18 13:46 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-21 0:24 ` Brian J. Watson
2001-07-21 20:25 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-22 10:18 ` Richard Guenther
2001-07-23 14:36 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-22 16:37 ` Larry McVoy
2001-07-23 14:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-22 23:34 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2001-07-24 12:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-22 2:23 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2001-07-24 12:28 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-18 9:48 ` Richard Guenther
[not found] <oupitgqjxoi.fsf@pigdrop.muc.suse.de>
2001-07-20 22:32 ` Brian J. Watson
2001-07-21 22:57 ` Daniel Phillips
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