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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 16:51:24 +0200
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On 09/01/15 at 10:16pm, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 04:13:05PM +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> >
> > You can easily trigger this outside of the testsuite as well. Open
> > 10K Netlink sockets in a loop and the creation of the sockets will
> > fail way before memory pressure kicks in.
> 
> That means our implementation is buggy.  Do you have a test program?

1. The current in-kernel self-test
2. bind_netlink.c: https://github.com/tgraf/rhashtable