Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:26:54 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: rhashtable: Prevent spurious EBUSY errors on insertion |
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On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:07:08AM +0800, Xin Long wrote: > > I'm just wondering, why do not we handle the genuine double rehash > issue inside rhashtable? i mean it's just a temporary error that a > simple retry may fix it.
Because a double rehash means that someone has cracked your hash function and there is no point in trying anymore.
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