From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fengguang.wu@intel.com,
wfg@linux.intel.com, lkp@01.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 00:43:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150828224303.GD32001@pox.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150828133437.GM20760@orbit.nwl.cc>
On 08/28/15 at 03:34pm, Phil Sutter wrote:
> Quite ugly, IMHO: rhashtable_insert_fast() may return -ENOMEM as
> non-permanent error, if allocation in GFP_ATOMIC failed. In this case,
> allocation in GFP_KERNEL is retried by rht_deferred_worker(). Sadly,
> there is no way to determine if that has already been tried and failed.
>
> The thread test triggers GFP_ATOMIC allocation failure quite easily, so
> I can't really just ignore this issue. :)
Return EBUSY or ENOBUFS in the non-permanent case? It is definitely
helpful if the API allows to differ between permanent and
non-permanent errors.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-28 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-28 10:28 [PATCH 1/3] rhashtable-test: add cond_resched() to thread test Phil Sutter
2015-08-28 10:28 ` [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Phil Sutter
2015-08-28 11:09 ` Thomas Graf
2015-08-28 11:13 ` Phil Sutter
2015-08-28 13:34 ` Phil Sutter
2015-08-28 22:43 ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2015-08-29 9:07 ` Phil Sutter
2015-08-30 7:47 ` Herbert Xu
2015-08-31 11:00 ` Phil Sutter
2015-09-01 11:43 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-01 12:46 ` Phil Sutter
2015-09-01 13:00 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-01 13:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-09-01 13:43 ` Phil Sutter
2015-09-01 13:50 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-01 13:56 ` Phil Sutter
2015-09-01 14:03 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-01 14:13 ` Thomas Graf
2015-09-01 14:16 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-01 14:51 ` Thomas Graf
2015-09-02 2:00 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-02 7:07 ` Thomas Graf
2015-09-10 8:03 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-10 10:05 ` Phil Sutter
2015-08-28 10:28 ` [PATCH 3/3] rhashtable-test: calculate max_entries value by default Phil Sutter
2015-08-28 11:11 ` Thomas Graf
2015-08-28 11:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] rhashtable-test: add cond_resched() to thread test Thomas Graf
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