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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Fu, Qiaobin" <qiaobinf@bu.edu>
Cc: "users@dpdk.org" <users@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] DPDK hash table dynamic growth
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 09:54:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170417095430.52cd5fdf@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <070B2881-A8CF-4106-9921-41E4AEB288A4@bu.edu>

On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 15:47:59 +0000
"Fu, Qiaobin" <qiaobinf@bu.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Currently, I am using the hash library to handle network flows defined as source and destination IP addresses. I need to find a way to alleviate memory pressure when the table is full. However, after some research, I didn’t find any hints on the dynamic growth in the hash library. Could anyone point me some hints on this? Thanks.
> 
> Best,
> Qiaobin

If you need growing hash table, I recommend the lock-free hash table in the Linux userspace RCU library;
rather than the more limited DPDK one.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-17 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-17 15:47 Fu, Qiaobin
2017-04-17 16:54 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-04-17 17:30   ` Alex Kiselev
2017-04-17 17:44     ` Fu, Qiaobin
2017-04-17 20:06       ` Alex Kiselev
2017-04-18  5:08         ` Shyam Shrivastav

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