I think KIST can use hash tables much less.
Originally, I observed that outbuf_table_add shows up in our malloc profile (#23777 (moved)), where I hadn't been expecting to see it.
After a little more thinking, I'm wondering why we have outbuf_table and socket_table at all:
The contents of socket_table_ent could become a member of channel_t, and save us a hashtable lookup there.
The outbuf_table could become a smartlist with a corresponding index pointer in channel_t, since we're basically using it as an unordered set.
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