From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com,
davem@davemloft.net, rostedt@goodmis.org, mingo@elte.hu,
ebiederm@xmission.com, aarcange@redhat.com, ericvh@gmail.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/7] hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 02:33:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <501C6DC3.90904@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFziVRRBoTnm2zASGR39W1AB+0=4Sa7qO8e6_hN06ZY8wg@mail.gmail.com>
On 08/04/2012 02:05 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The problem with that code was that it doesn't work with dynamically allocated hashtables, or hashtables that grow/shrink.
>
> Sure. But once you have that kind of complexity, why would you care
> about the trivial cases?
Because there are far more trivial cases than complex ones - I've counted 50+ of these "trivial" cases.
None of them need the complexity we're trying to deal with at the moment.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-04 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-03 14:23 [RFC v2 0/7] generic hashtable implementation Sasha Levin
2012-08-03 14:23 ` [RFC v2 1/7] hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable Sasha Levin
2012-08-03 17:15 ` Tejun Heo
2012-08-03 17:16 ` Tejun Heo
2012-08-03 21:19 ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-03 21:30 ` Tejun Heo
2012-08-03 21:36 ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-03 21:44 ` Tejun Heo
2012-08-03 21:41 ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-03 21:48 ` Tejun Heo
2012-08-03 22:20 ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-03 22:23 ` Tejun Heo
2012-08-03 22:26 ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-03 22:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-08-03 22:36 ` Tejun Heo
2012-08-03 23:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-08-04 0:03 ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-04 0:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-08-04 0:33 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2012-08-04 0:05 ` Tejun Heo
2012-08-03 17:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-03 14:23 ` [RFC v2 2/7] user_ns: use new hashtable implementation Sasha Levin
2012-08-05 0:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-03 14:23 ` [RFC v2 3/7] mm,ksm: " Sasha Levin
2012-08-03 14:23 ` [RFC v2 4/7] workqueue: " Sasha Levin
2012-08-03 14:23 ` [RFC v2 5/7] mm/huge_memory: " Sasha Levin
2012-08-03 14:23 ` [RFC v2 6/7] tracepoint: " Sasha Levin
2012-08-05 0:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-08-05 16:31 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-08-05 17:03 ` Sasha Levin
2012-08-05 17:12 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-08-03 14:23 ` [RFC v2 7/7] net,9p: " Sasha Levin
2012-08-03 18:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-03 21:14 ` Sasha Levin
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