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Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] rhashtable: Per bucket locks & deferred
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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 16:53:02 +0000
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On 01/16/15 at 04:43pm, David Laight wrote:
> The walker is unlikely to see items that get inserted early in the hash
> table even without a resize.

I don't follow, you have to explain this statement.

Walkers which don't want to see duplicates or miss entries should
just take the mutex.