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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:37:37 +0200
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv6 1/2] batman-adv: Remove dynamically
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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