NAME

     ck_ht_gc — perform maintenance on a hash table

LIBRARY

     Concurrency Kit (libck, -lck)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <ck_ht.h>

     bool
     ck_ht_gc(ck_ht_t *ht, unsigned long cycles, unsigned long seed);

DESCRIPTION

     The ck_ht_gc() function will perform various maintenance routines on the hash table pointed
     to by ht, including defragmentation of probe sequences with respect to tombstones and in the
     case that the delete workload hint has been passed, recalculation of probe sequence bounds.
     The cycles argument is used to indicate how many hash table entries should be subject to
     attempted maintenance.  If cycles is 0, then maintenance is performed on the complete hash
     table. The seed argument determines the start location of the maintenance process. If cycles
     is non-zero, it is recommended that seed is some random value. If the delete hint has been
     passed, the function will require an additional 12% of memory (with respect to existing
     memory usage of the set), until operation completion.

RETURN VALUES

     Upon successful completion, ck_ht_gc(3) returns true and otherwise returns false on failure
     due to memory allocation failure.

ERRORS

     This function will only return false if there are internal memory allocation failures.

SEE ALSO

     ck_ht_count(3), ck_ht_stat(3), ck_ht_init(3), ck_ht_destroy(3), ck_ht_hash(3),
     ck_ht_hash_direct(3), ck_ht_set_spmc(3), ck_ht_put_spmc(3), ck_ht_get_spmc(3),
     ck_ht_grow_spmc(3), ck_ht_remove_spmc(3), ck_ht_reset_size_spmc(3), ck_ht_reset_spmc(3),
     ck_ht_entry_empty(3), ck_ht_entry_key_set(3), ck_ht_entry_key_set_direct(3),
     ck_ht_entry_key(3), ck_ht_entry_key_length(3), ck_ht_entry_value(3), ck_ht_entry_set(3),
     ck_ht_entry_set_direct(3), ck_ht_entry_key_direct(3), ck_ht_entry_value_direct(3),
     ck_ht_iterator_init(3), ck_ht_next(3)

     Additional information available at http://concurrencykit.org/

                                        December 18, 2013