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

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Message-ID: <20150901145124.GC11564@pox.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 1 Sep 2015 16:51:24 +0200
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	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 09/01/15 at 10:16pm, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 04:13:05PM +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> >
> > You can easily trigger this outside of the testsuite as well. Open
> > 10K Netlink sockets in a loop and the creation of the sockets will
> > fail way before memory pressure kicks in.
> 
> That means our implementation is buggy.  Do you have a test program?

1. The current in-kernel self-test
2. bind_netlink.c: https://github.com/tgraf/rhashtable
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