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authorFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>2017-04-16 02:55:09 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-04-18 13:49:14 -0400
commit5f8ddeab10ce45d3d3de8ae7ea8811512845c497 (patch)
tree41fe63ac1297c07eee1ea140ee4ddceae417e5d5 /lib/rhashtable.c
parent3a9ca1e2cba02365d93a8cf7bdda04c05a637f1b (diff)
downloadlinux-5f8ddeab10ce45d3d3de8ae7ea8811512845c497.tar.gz
rhashtable: remove insecure_elasticity
commit 83e7e4ce9e93c3 ("mac80211: Use rhltable instead of rhashtable")
removed the last user that made use of 'insecure_elasticity' parameter,
i.e. the default of 16 is used everywhere.

Replace it with a constant.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/rhashtable.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/rhashtable.c17
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
index f8635fd57442..d22a5ef109fb 100644
--- a/lib/rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ static void *rhashtable_lookup_one(struct rhashtable *ht,
 	struct rhash_head *head;
 	int elasticity;
 
-	elasticity = ht->elasticity;
+	elasticity = RHT_ELASTICITY;
 	pprev = rht_bucket_var(tbl, hash);
 	rht_for_each_continue(head, *pprev, tbl, hash) {
 		struct rhlist_head *list;
@@ -972,21 +972,6 @@ int rhashtable_init(struct rhashtable *ht,
 	if (params->nelem_hint)
 		size = rounded_hashtable_size(&ht->p);
 
-	/* The maximum (not average) chain length grows with the
-	 * size of the hash table, at a rate of (log N)/(log log N).
-	 * The value of 16 is selected so that even if the hash
-	 * table grew to 2^32 you would not expect the maximum
-	 * chain length to exceed it unless we are under attack
-	 * (or extremely unlucky).
-	 *
-	 * As this limit is only to detect attacks, we don't need
-	 * to set it to a lower value as you'd need the chain
-	 * length to vastly exceed 16 to have any real effect
-	 * on the system.
-	 */
-	if (!params->insecure_elasticity)
-		ht->elasticity = 16;
-
 	if (params->locks_mul)
 		ht->p.locks_mul = roundup_pow_of_two(params->locks_mul);
 	else