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authorYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>2015-01-07 06:41:54 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-01-09 04:47:11 +0100
commitdb30485408326a6f466a843b291b23535f63eda0 (patch)
tree42d8c8e2b515c03f6c054a27e6d8b9aa9c634284 /include
parentrhashtable: introduce rhashtable_wakeup_worker helper function (diff)
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rhashtable: involve rhashtable_lookup_insert routine
Involve a new function called rhashtable_lookup_insert() which makes lookup and insertion atomic under bucket lock protection, helping us avoid to introduce an extra lock when we search and insert an object into hash table. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/rhashtable.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rhashtable.h b/include/linux/rhashtable.h
index de1459c74c4d..73c913f31574 100644
--- a/include/linux/rhashtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/rhashtable.h
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ int rhashtable_shrink(struct rhashtable *ht);
void *rhashtable_lookup(struct rhashtable *ht, const void *key);
void *rhashtable_lookup_compare(struct rhashtable *ht, const void *key,
bool (*compare)(void *, void *), void *arg);
+bool rhashtable_lookup_insert(struct rhashtable *ht, struct rhash_head *obj);
void rhashtable_destroy(struct rhashtable *ht);