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Re: [6/6]: jenkins hash for neigh

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [6/6]: jenkins hash for neigh
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 17:50:51 +1000
Cc: laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20040927111520.4f495b17.davem@davemloft.net>
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 11:15:20AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:48:33 +1000
> Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > - if (tbl->entries > (tbl->hash_mask + 1))
> > > + if (tbl->entries > (tbl->hash_mask + 1)) {
> > > +         write_lock_bh(&tbl->lock);
> > >           neigh_hash_grow(tbl, (tbl->hash_mask + 1) << 1);
> > > +         write_unlock_bh(&tbl->lock);
> > > + }
> > 
> > The locking should be outside the if block as otherwise you may grow
> > unnecessarily or grow into the same size :)
> 
> I'm not going to do that, because then we're grabbing that lock
> twice on every neigh create operation and I was trying hard
> to avoid that overhead.

Actually, why don't we just move the expansion into the locked section?

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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