Re: [RFC v2 1/7] hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable
[Posted August 8, 2012 by jake]
| From: |
| Sasha Levin <levinsasha928-AT-gmail.com> |
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| Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-linux-foundation.org> |
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| Re: [RFC v2 1/7] hashtable: introduce a small and naive hashtable |
| Date: |
| Sat, 04 Aug 2012 02:33:07 +0200 |
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| Tejun Heo <tj-AT-kernel.org>, akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org,
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On 08/04/2012 02:05 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> 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.
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