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by brian and der Mouse, and another that seemed to throw a reader. Add the CODE REFERENCES section. Critical discussion of this man page: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2006/06/04/0012.html et seq. And with all that, what a lucky break to catch that I was thinking of the /reciprocal/ of the load factor, before anybody else spotted it! Now I can fix it before anybody notices. Heh. Wait, is this going in the lo^C
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.\" $NetBSD: hashinit.9,v 1.2 2006/06/05 16:48:35 chap Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 2006 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
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.\" by Chapman Flack.
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.Dd June 3, 2006
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.Dt HASHINIT 9
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm hashinit ,
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.Nm hashdone
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.Nd kernel hash table construction and destruction
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In sys/malloc.h
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.In sys/systm.h
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.Ft "void *"
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.Fo hashinit
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.Fa "u_int chains"
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.Fa "enum hashtype htype"
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.Fa "struct malloc_type *mtype"
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.Fa "int mflags"
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.Fa "u_long *hashmask"
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.Fc
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.Ft void
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.Fn hashdone "void *hashtbl" "struct malloc_type *mtype"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn hashinit
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function allocates and initializes space for a simple chaining hash table.
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The number of slots will be the least power of two not smaller than
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.Fa chains .
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The customary choice for
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.Fa chains
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is the maximum number of elements you intend to store divided by
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your intended load factor.
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The
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.Dv LIST...
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or
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.Dv TAILQ...
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macros of
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.Xr queue 3
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can be used to manipulate the chains; pass
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.Dv HASH_LIST
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or
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.Dv HASH_TAILQ
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as
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.Fa htype
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to indicate which. Each slot will be initialized as the head of an empty
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chain of the proper type. Because different data structures from
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.Xr queue 3
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can define head structures of different sizes, the total size of the
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allocated table can vary with the choice of
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.Fa htype .
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.Pp
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The
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.Fa mtype
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and
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.Fa mflags
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arguments have the meanings of the corresponding arguments to
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.Xr malloc 9 .
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.Pp
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A value will be stored into
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.Fa *hashmask
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suitable for masking any computed hash, to obtain the index of a chain
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head in the allocated table.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn hashdone
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function deallocates the storage allocated by
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.Fn hashinit
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and pointed to by
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.Fa hashtbl ,
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given the same
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.Fa mtype
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that was passed to
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.Fn hashinit .
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If the table contains any nonempty chain when
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.Fn hashdone
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is called, the result is undefined.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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The value returned by
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.Fn hashinit
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should be cast as pointer to an array of
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.Dv LIST_HEAD
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or
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.Dv TAILQ_HEAD
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as appropriate.
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It can be
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.Dv NULL
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only if the specified
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.Fa mflags
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allow it.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr queue 3 ,
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.Xr hash 9 ,
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.Xr malloc 9
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.Sh CODE REFERENCES
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These functions are implemented in
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.Pa sys/kern/kern_subr.c .
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.Sh HISTORY
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A
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.Fn hashinit
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function was present, without the
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.Fa htype
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or
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.Fa mflags
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arguments, in
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.Bx 4.4 alpha .
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It was independent of
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.Xr queue 3
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and simply allocated and nulled a table of pointer-sized slots.
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It sized the table to the
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.Em largest
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power of two
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.Em not greater than
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.Fa chains ;
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that is, it built in a load factor between 1 and 2.
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.Pp
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.Nx 1.0
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was the first
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.Nx
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release to have a
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.Fn hashinit
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function.
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It resembled that from
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.Bx 4.4
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but made each slot a
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.Dv LIST_HEAD
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from
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.Xr queue 3 .
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For
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.Nx 1.3.3
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it had been changed to size the table to the least power of two
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not less than
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.Em or equal to
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.Fa chains .
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By
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.Nx 1.4
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it had the
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.Fa mflags
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argument and the current sizing rule.
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.Pp
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.Nx 1.5
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had the
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.Fn hashdone
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function.
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By
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.Nx 1.6
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.Fn hashinit
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supported
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.Dv LIST
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or
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.Dv TAILQ
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chains selected with
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.Fa htype .
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.Pp
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.Fx
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has a
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.Fn hashinit
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with behavior equivalent (as of
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.Fx 6.1 )
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to that in
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.Nx 1.0 ,
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and a
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.Fn hashdestroy
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that behaves as
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.Fn hashdone
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but checks that all chains are empty first.
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.Ox
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has a
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.Fn hashinit
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comparable (as of
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.Ox 3.9 )
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to that of
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.Nx 1.4 .
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This manual page was added for
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.Nx 4.0 .
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.Sh BUGS
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The only part of the work of implementing a hash table that these functions
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relieve is the part that isn't much work.
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