On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 21:00 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:

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> 
> Hum... Another way of handling all those cases and avoid memory barriers
> would be to have different "NULL" pointers.
> 
> Each hash chain should have a unique "NULL" pointer (in the case of UDP, it
> can be the 128 values : [ (void*)0 .. (void *)127 ]

Why not use the bucket pointer as terminating condition?

Because all you really need is a pointer that is specific per bucket,
and not a valid element, right?


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