From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx111.postini.com [74.125.245.111]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 347276B0044 for ; Fri, 3 Aug 2012 20:32:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: by bkcjc3 with SMTP id jc3so612042bkc.14 for ; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:32:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <501C6DC3.90904@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 02:33:07 +0200 From: Sasha Levin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC v2 1/7] hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable References: <1344003788-1417-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com> <1344003788-1417-2-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com> <20120803171515.GH15477@google.com> <501C407D.9080900@gmail.com> <20120803213017.GK15477@google.com> <501C458E.7050000@gmail.com> <20120803214806.GM15477@google.com> <501C4E92.1070801@gmail.com> <20120803222339.GN15477@google.com> <20120803223634.GO15477@google.com> <501C66C2.2020706@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Tejun Heo , 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 On 08/04/2012 02:05 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Sasha Levin 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org