The traditional way of implementing a hash table is to have an array of linked lists. However, user-space RCU instead uses a split-ordered list, which provides a lock-free RCU-protected resizable hash ...

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 ...

Hash tables are heavily used within the kernel to speed access to objects of interest. Using a hash table will be faster than, say, a linear search through a single list, but there is always value in ...

Provides an introduction to and implementation of chained hash tables. Hash tables are data structures that are used when you are managing a large amount of data and need to be able find an item ...