On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 17:28:00 +0200 Bing Zhao <bi...@mellanox.com> wrote:
> Introduce simple hash list to the mlx5 utilities. User can define > its own data structure containing the mlx5_hlist_entry and create > the hash list table via the creation interface. Then the entry will > be inserted into the table and linked to the corresponding list > head. User should guarantee there is no collision of the key and > provide a callback function to handle all the remaining entries in > the table when destroying the hash list. User should define a proper > number of the list heads in the table in order to get a better > performance. The LSB of the 'key' is used to calculate the index of > the head in the list heads array. > This implementation is not multi-threads safe right now. > > Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bi...@mellanox.com> There is already a plethora of hash routines in DPDK, why introduce a chained hash list like Linux kernel?
