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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf-G/eBtMaohhA@public.gmane.org>
To: Bob Copeland <me-aXfl/3sk2vNUbtYUoyoikg@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	Johannes Berg <johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org>,
	netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] rhashtable: accept GFP flags in rhashtable_walk_init
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 20:31:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160301193134.GA11309@pox.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456708013-19590-1-git-send-email-me-aXfl/3sk2vNUbtYUoyoikg@public.gmane.org>

On 02/28/16 at 08:06pm, 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.
> 
> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf-G/eBtMaohhA@public.gmane.org>
> Cc: netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
> Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me-aXfl/3sk2vNUbtYUoyoikg@public.gmane.org>

rhashtable bits LGTM

Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf-G/eBtMaohhA@public.gmane.org>
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-01 19:31 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
2016-03-01 13:54 ` Johannes Berg
2016-03-01 14:15   ` 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   ` Thomas Graf [this message]

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