On 02/25/15 at 09:56pm, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:34:09PM +0000, Thomas Graf wrote: > > > > There is a side effect. We can't grow the number of bucket locks more > > than 2x if we grow the table itself faster than 2x. So if we start > > out with a table size of 512 and grow 4 times in a row we will end > > up with a theoretical max bucket locks of 4K. Probably enough though. > > Does this limit on bucket locks apply to my rehash scheme? I don't think so. I assume you get rid of all the old bucket == new bucket assumptions and introduce some form of nested locking to account for the fact that entries in an old bucket may map to an arbitrary number of new buckets. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
