rhashtable: Use a single bucket lock for sibling buckets
rhashtable currently allows to use a bucket lock per bucket. This requires multiple levels of complicated nested locking because when resizing, a single bucket of the smaller table will map to two buckets in the larger table. So far rhashtable has explicitly locked both buckets in the larger table. By excluding the highest bit of the hash from the bucket lock map and thus only allowing locks to buckets in a ratio of 1:2, the locking can be simplified a lot without losing the benefits of multiple locks. Larger tables which benefit from multiple locks will not have a single lock per bucket anyway. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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