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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2018
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., Yokneam, IL;
Guy Shattah, Tel Aviv, IL;
MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Yokneam, IL;
Abstract
A method for optimizing hash table lookup speed during hash table resize on a computing device, the method including performing the following on the computing device: providing a first hash table having N slots for entries, designating the first hash table as an active hash table, allocating a second hash table, and performing the following after allocating the second hash table: when a hash table insertion of an entry is requested, performing insertion by inserting the entry to the first hash table and inserting the entry to the second hash table, and when a hash table lookup is requested, looking up the requested entry in the active hash table, one of the performing insertion and the performing deletion including also copying K entries, K being greater than or equal to 1, from the first hash table to the second hash table. Related apparatus and methods are also described.