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authorJustus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>2014-05-13 18:59:10 +0200
committerJustus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>2014-05-13 21:38:35 +0200
commite2be8995642cd962b7d61c9c231980de88302d50 (patch)
treef3bea78d2b650340d15ffe4d8a90159c2e866a74 /libihash
parent57341e5be12f79ee1916369679bb6507a10fcac9 (diff)
libihash: use fast binary scaling to determine the load
Expressing the maximum load in binary percent (where 128b% corresponds to 100%) allows us to use fast binary scaling to determine if the maximum load has been reached without losing precision. Furthermore, the previously used expression 'ht->nr_items * 100' overflows int at 2^25 (unsigned int at 2^26). When a hash table reached that limit, it would fail to resize and fill up the table. This change fixes that. * libihash/ihash.c (hurd_ihash_set_max_load): Update the comment. (hurd_ihash_add): Use fast binary scaling to determine the current load. * libihash/ihash.h (struct hurd_ihash): Update comment for max_load. (hurd_ihash_set_max_load): Update the comment.
Diffstat (limited to 'libihash')
-rw-r--r--libihash/ihash.c37
-rw-r--r--libihash/ihash.h24
2 files changed, 40 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/libihash/ihash.c b/libihash/ihash.c
index 249f4884..151c1a79 100644
--- a/libihash/ihash.c
+++ b/libihash/ihash.c
@@ -180,14 +180,15 @@ hurd_ihash_set_cleanup (hurd_ihash_t ht, hurd_ihash_cleanup_t cleanup,
}
-/* Set the maximum load factor in percent to MAX_LOAD, which should be
- between 1 and 100. The default is HURD_IHASH_MAX_LOAD_DEFAULT.
- New elements are only added to the hash table while the number of
- hashed elements is that much percent of the total size of the hash
- table. If more elements are added, the hash table is first
- expanded and reorganized. A MAX_LOAD of 100 will always fill the
- whole table before enlarging it, but note that this will increase
- the cost of operations significantly when the table is almost full.
+/* Set the maximum load factor in binary percent to MAX_LOAD, which
+ should be between 64 and 128. The default is
+ HURD_IHASH_MAX_LOAD_DEFAULT. New elements are only added to the
+ hash table while the number of hashed elements is that much binary
+ percent of the total size of the hash table. If more elements are
+ added, the hash table is first expanded and reorganized. A
+ MAX_LOAD of 128 will always fill the whole table before enlarging
+ it, but note that this will increase the cost of operations
+ significantly when the table is almost full.
If the value is set to a smaller value than the current load
factor, the next reorganization will happen when a new item is
@@ -272,8 +273,24 @@ hurd_ihash_add (hurd_ihash_t ht, hurd_ihash_key_t key, hurd_ihash_value_t item)
if (ht->size)
{
- /* Only fill the hash table up to its maximum load factor. */
- if ((ht->nr_items * 100) >> __builtin_ctzl (ht->size) <= ht->max_load)
+ /* Only fill the hash table up to its maximum load factor given
+ as "binary percent", where 128b% corresponds to 100%. As the
+ size is always a power of two, and 128 is also, the quotient
+ of both is also a power of two. Therefore, we can use bit
+ shifts to scale the number of items.
+
+ load = nr_items * 128 / size
+ = nr_items * 2^{log2 (128) - log2 (size)}
+ = nr_items >> (log2 (size) - log2 (128))
+ -- if size >= 128
+ = nr_items << (log2 (128) - log2 (size))
+ -- otherwise
+ */
+ int d = __builtin_ctzl (ht->size) - 7;
+ unsigned int load = d >= 0
+ ? ht->nr_items >> d
+ : ht->nr_items << -d;
+ if (load <= ht->max_load)
if (add_one (ht, key, item))
return 0;
}
diff --git a/libihash/ihash.h b/libihash/ihash.h
index 8829e51e..809166f2 100644
--- a/libihash/ihash.h
+++ b/libihash/ihash.h
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ struct hurd_ihash
/* The offset of the location pointer from the hash value. */
intptr_t locp_offset;
- /* The maximum load factor in percent. */
+ /* The maximum load factor in binary percent. */
unsigned int max_load;
/* When freeing or overwriting an element, this function is called
@@ -97,8 +97,9 @@ typedef struct hurd_ihash *hurd_ihash_t;
be a power of two. */
#define HURD_IHASH_MIN_SIZE 32
-/* The default value for the maximum load factor in percent. */
-#define HURD_IHASH_MAX_LOAD_DEFAULT 75
+/* The default value for the maximum load factor in binary percent.
+ 96b% is equivalent to 75%, 128b% to 100%. */
+#define HURD_IHASH_MAX_LOAD_DEFAULT 96
/* The LOCP_OFFS to use if no location pointer is available. */
#define HURD_IHASH_NO_LOCP INTPTR_MIN
@@ -143,14 +144,15 @@ void hurd_ihash_free (hurd_ihash_t ht);
void hurd_ihash_set_cleanup (hurd_ihash_t ht, hurd_ihash_cleanup_t cleanup,
void *cleanup_data);
-/* Set the maximum load factor in percent to MAX_LOAD, which should be
- between 50 and 100. The default is HURD_IHASH_MAX_LOAD_DEFAULT.
- New elements are only added to the hash table while the number of
- hashed elements is that much percent of the total size of the hash
- table. If more elements are added, the hash table is first
- expanded and reorganized. A MAX_LOAD of 100 will always fill the
- whole table before enlarging it, but note that this will increase
- the cost of operations significantly when the table is almost full.
+/* Set the maximum load factor in binary percent to MAX_LOAD, which
+ should be between 64 and 128. The default is
+ HURD_IHASH_MAX_LOAD_DEFAULT. New elements are only added to the
+ hash table while the number of hashed elements is that much binary
+ percent of the total size of the hash table. If more elements are
+ added, the hash table is first expanded and reorganized. A
+ MAX_LOAD of 128 will always fill the whole table before enlarging
+ it, but note that this will increase the cost of operations
+ significantly when the table is almost full.
If the value is set to a smaller value than the current load
factor, the next reorganization will happen when a new item is