Jesper Dangaard Brouer <bro...@redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 12:57:05 -0700
> Y Song <ys114...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 12:43 PM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <t...@redhat.com> 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoi...@gmail.com> writes:
>> >  
>> > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 9:06 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <t...@redhat.com> 
>> > > wrote:  
>> > >>
>> > >> This series adds a new map type, devmap_hash, that works like the 
>> > >> existing
>> > >> devmap type, but using a hash-based indexing scheme. This is useful for 
>> > >> the use
>> > >> case where a devmap is indexed by ifindex (for instance for use with 
>> > >> the routing
>> > >> table lookup helper). For this use case, the regular devmap needs to be 
>> > >> sized
>> > >> after the maximum ifindex number, not the number of devices in it. A 
>> > >> hash-based
>> > >> indexing scheme makes it possible to size the map after the number of 
>> > >> devices it
>> > >> should contain instead.
>> > >>
>> > >> This was previously part of my patch series that also turned the regular
>> > >> bpf_redirect() helper into a map-based one; for this series I just 
>> > >> pulled out
>> > >> the patches that introduced the new map type.
>> > >>
>> > >> Changelog:
>> > >>
>> > >> v5:
>> > >>
>> > >> - Dynamically set the number of hash buckets by rounding up max_entries 
>> > >> to the
>> > >>   nearest power of two (mirroring the regular hashmap), as suggested by 
>> > >> Jesper.  
>> > >
>> > > fyi I'm waiting for Jesper to review this new version.  
>> >
>> > Ping Jesper? :)  
>> 
>> Toke, the patch set has been merged to net-next.
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next.git/commit/?id=d3406913561c322323ec2898cc58f55e79786be7
>> 
>
> Yes, and I did review this... :-)

Oops, my bad; seems I accidentally muted this thread and didn't see
Jesper's review and Alexei's message about merging it. Sorry about
that...

-Toke

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