Re: Common hash table implementation

Rusty Russell
2001-07-22T04:22:07Z

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.
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