On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:09:31PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2005-12-13 at 13:47 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Can't you use the pointer as a hash input? > > Some platforms already do this for certain sets of operations like > atomic_t. The downside however is that you no longer control the lock > contention or cache line bouncing. It becomes a question of luck rather > than science as to how well it scales.
s/luck/statistics/ You can always increase the size of the hash table if you encounter scaling problems.
