nft_hash: Remove rhashtable_remove_pprev()

The removal function of nft_hash currently stores a reference to the
previous element during lookup which is used to optimize removal later
on. This was possible because a lock is held throughout calling
rhashtable_lookup() and rhashtable_remove().

With the introdution of deferred table resizing in parallel to lookups
and insertions, the nftables lock will no longer synchronize all
table mutations and the stored pprev may become invalid.

Removing this optimization makes removal slightly more expensive on
average but allows taking the resize cost out of the insert and
remove path.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/rhashtable.h b/include/linux/rhashtable.h
index b54e24a08806..f624d4b5045f 100644
--- a/include/linux/rhashtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/rhashtable.h
@@ -105,8 +105,6 @@ int rhashtable_init(struct rhashtable *ht, struct rhashtable_params *params);
 
 void rhashtable_insert(struct rhashtable *ht, struct rhash_head *node);
 bool rhashtable_remove(struct rhashtable *ht, struct rhash_head *node);
-void rhashtable_remove_pprev(struct rhashtable *ht, struct rhash_head *obj,
-			     struct rhash_head __rcu **pprev);
 
 bool rht_grow_above_75(const struct rhashtable *ht, size_t new_size);
 bool rht_shrink_below_30(const struct rhashtable *ht, size_t new_size);