netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/5] rhashtable: Remove gfp_flags from insert and remove functions

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Message-ID: <20140915145625.GE21541@casper.infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:56:25 +0100
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	john.r.fastabend@...el.com, kaber@...sh.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] rhashtable: Remove gfp_flags from insert and remove
 functions

On 09/15/14 at 07:49am, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 13:49 +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
> 
> > Agreed. Will introduce this through a table parameter option when
> > converting the inet hash table.
> 
> I am not sure you covered the /proc/net/tcp problem yet ? (or inet_diag)

I haven't digged through inet_diag in all detail yet but was planning to
acquire ht->mutex to block expansions and then take bucket locks during
bucket traverals as done now. I will do that next but wanted to get this
out for comments in the meantime.
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