From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757078AbYJGVI6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:08:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753635AbYJGVIu (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:08:50 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:54839 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753138AbYJGVIt (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:08:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:08:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20081007.140825.40261432.davem@davemloft.net> To: npiggin@suse.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-netdev@vger.kernel.org, paulmck@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] ddds: "dynamic dynamic data structure" algorithm, for adaptive dcache hash table sizing From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20081007064834.GA5959@wotan.suse.de> References: <20081007064834.GA5959@wotan.suse.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Nick Piggin Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 08:48:34 +0200 > I'm cc'ing netdev because Dave did express some interest in using this for > some networking hashes, and network guys in general are pretty cluey when it > comes to hashes and such ;) Interesting stuff. Paul, many months ago, forwarded to me a some work done by Josh Triplett called "rcuhashbash" which had similar objectives. He did post it to linux-kernel, and perhaps even your ideas are inspired by his work, I don't know. :-)