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    rhashtable: remove nulls_base and related code. · 9f9a7077
    NeilBrown authored
    This "feature" is unused, undocumented, and untested and so doesn't
    really belong.  A patch is under development to properly implement
    support for detecting when a search gets diverted down a different
    chain, which the common purpose of nulls markers.
    
    This patch actually fixes a bug too.  The table resizing allows a
    table to grow to 2^31 buckets, but the hash is truncated to 27 bits -
    any growth beyond 2^27 is wasteful an ineffective.
    
    This patch results in NULLS_MARKER(0) being used for all chains,
    and leaves the use of rht_is_a_null() to test for it.
    Acked-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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