netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] rhashtable: Handle table allocation failure during insertion

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Date:   Sat, 11 Feb 2017 19:22:12 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     tgraf@...g.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] rhashtable: Handle table allocation failure during
 insertion

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 01:26:42PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> rhashtable is indeed getting quite complex, but I understand your
> motivation for doing this work.
> 
> I also agree that only true OOM situations should cause insertion
> failures.
> 
> Given the delicate nature of change rhashtable this way, I'm going
> to let these changes sit for a couple days before applying them.

No problems.  Good thing too as the lkp found a bug in my RCU
annotation.  So I will send a v2 with that fixed.

Thanks,
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