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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/6] lib/rhashtable: guarantee initial hashtable allocation
On Mon, 28 May 2018, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> + /*
>> + * This is api initialization and thus we need to guarantee the
>> + * initial rhashtable allocation. Upon failure, retry with a
>> + * smallest possible size, otherwise we exhaust our options with
>> + * __GFP_NOFAIL.
>> + */
>> tbl = bucket_table_alloc(ht, size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> - if (tbl == NULL)
>> - return -ENOMEM;
>> + if (unlikely(tbl == NULL)) {
>> + size = HASH_MIN_SIZE;
>> +
>> + tbl = bucket_table_alloc(ht, size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> + if (tbl == NULL)
>> + tbl = bucket_table_alloc_retry(ht, size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> + }
>
>Perhaps you should also explain here why we don't just try the
>minimum size with __GFP_NOFAIL as the second step rather than the
>third.

Please see the comment above, I try to explain the rationale.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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