rhashtable: Supports for nulls marker
In order to allow for wider usage of rhashtable, use a special nulls marker to terminate each chain. The reason for not using the existing nulls_list is that the prev pointer usage would not be valid as entries can be linked in two different buckets at the same time. The 4 nulls base bits can be set through the rhashtable_params structure like this: struct rhashtable_params params = { [...] .nulls_base = (1U << RHT_BASE_SHIFT), }; This reduces the hash length from 32 bits to 27 bits. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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