Re: rhashtable: ENOMEM errors when hit with a flood of insertions

Herbert Xu
2015-12-04T00:07:17Z

On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 08:08:39AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
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> Well, it will fail before this point if memory is fragmented.

Indeed, I was surprised that it even worked up to that point,
possibly because the previous resizes might have actually been
done in process context.

> Anyway, __vmalloc() can be used with GFP_ATOMIC, have you tried this ?

Ah I didn't know that. That would be much simpler. I'll give it a
try.

Thanks Eric!
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