There were various flaws in it that motivated its removal:
- No hash collision handling mechanism. In case that would happen, the
behavior of the network connection would be unknown. This is the main
drawback
- The lookup is not that much more efficient than the default one. The
only difference of gain is in connection comparison (a u32t comparison
vs a full connection compare). But the list handling is the same. It's
made worse by the presence of a negatives match array which can be
easily filled in and becomes then fully usless, appart from consuming
CPU. As well as adding a new connection: it requires the whole cache
to be cleared which is unefficient.
- Not memory efficient, even compared to a proper hash table.
Two arrays instead of one etc...
All of this could be fixed by using a proper hash table, though it
remains to be seen if such object could fit in Zephyr core.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Bursztyka <tomasz.bursztyka@linux.intel.com>
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