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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] rhashtable: accept GFP flags in rhashtable_walk_init
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:54:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1456840456.3926.22.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456708013-19590-1-git-send-email-me@bobcopeland.com> (sfid-20160229_020706_258640_0460F6E4)

On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 20:06 -0500, Bob Copeland wrote:
> In certain cases, the 802.11 mesh pathtable code wants to
> iterate over all of the entries in the forwarding table from
> the receive path, which is inside an RCU read-side critical
> section.  Enable walks inside atomic sections by allowing
> GFP_ATOMIC allocations for the walker state.
> 
> Change all existing callsites to pass in GFP_KERNEL.

Both look fine to me.

I see you have more patches for mesh, so this probably can't go through
net-next tree directly.

johannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-01 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-29  1:06 [PATCH RFC 1/2] rhashtable: accept GFP flags in rhashtable_walk_init Bob Copeland
     [not found] ` <1456708013-19590-1-git-send-email-me-aXfl/3sk2vNUbtYUoyoikg@public.gmane.org>
2016-02-29  1:06   ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] mac80211: mesh: convert path table to rhashtable Bob Copeland
2016-03-01 19:31   ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] rhashtable: accept GFP flags in rhashtable_walk_init Thomas Graf
2016-03-01 13:54 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2016-03-01 14:15   ` Bob Copeland

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