Re: [patch][rfc] ddds: "dynamic dynamic data structure" algorithm, for adaptive dcache hash table sizing (resend)

Nick Piggin
2008-10-08T02:38:20Z

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:05:09PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:06:56 +0200
>
> > Hmm, that is interesting. What are the exact semantics of this rt_cache
> > file?
>
> It dumps the whole set of elements in the routing cache hash table.

Right, so I guess importantly, it must not miss a route that remains in
the cache for the duration of the read(2)s. Obviously routes concurrently
entering and leaving the cache will not have any guarantees, including
causality (if we dump route A, we may still miss route B added before A).

Duplicates? I guess in a sense it could be possible to read route A, then
it gets deleted and reinserted? Oh, looking at the code it seems like
actually it is possible to miss entries anyway if they get moved to the
front of the chain while we're traversing it. Hmm, so if it just has "best
effort" kind of semantics, then we don't have to be too worried.