netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads

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Message-ID: <20150901114300.GB12691@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 1 Sep 2015 19:43:00 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	tgraf@...g.ch, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, fengguang.wu@...el.com,
	wfg@...ux.intel.com, lkp@...org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 01:00:12PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:
> 
> The variable would be used to track if the worker has failed to allocate
> memory in background.
> 
> Since the failing insertion will be retried, subsequent inserts are not
> necessary unrelated.

If an insertion fails it is never retried.  The only thing that is
retried is the expansion of the table.  So I have no idea what
you are talking about.

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