The first time I heard about hash tables was after taking a compilers course during my BSc. The truth is, I was not able to understand and appreciate their usefulness fully back then. Now that I know ...
The kernel's "relativistic" (or "resizable") hash table implementation came into the mainline during the 3.17 merge window. These tables can be resized while still allowing concurrent access by ...
A data structure implementation that is more or less replicated in 50 or more places in the kernel seems like some nice low-hanging fruit to pick. That is just what Sasha Levin is trying to do with ...