Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Sep 2015 21:50:19 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads |
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On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:43:11PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote: > > Hmm. Since memory allocation is first tried with GFP_ATOMIC set and upon > failure retried in background, this seems like a situation which might > happen during normal use. If that already indicates a severe problem, > why retry in background at all?
It should be tried in the background first at 70% and only when that fails would we hit the 100% case and then we will try it with GFP_ATOMIC. If that fails then the insertion will fail.
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