On Wed, 2015-12-30 at 23:50 +0800, Xin Long wrote:

besides, this patchset will use transport hashtable to replace
association hashtable to lookup with rhashtable api. get transport
first then get association by t->asoc. and also it will make tcp
style work better.

SCTP already has a hash table, why not simply changing the way items are
hashed into it ?

Sure, storing thousands of sockets in a single hash bucket is not wise.

Switching SCTP to rhashtable at this moment is premature, it is still
moving fast.