netdev - Re: [v2 PATCH 0/3] rhashtable: Handle table allocation failure during insertion

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Date:   Mon, 13 Feb 2017 22:18:03 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:     tgraf@...g.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v2 PATCH 0/3] rhashtable: Handle table allocation failure
 during insertion

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 19:24:22 +0800

> This series tackles the problem of table allocation failures during
> insertion.  The issue is that we cannot vmalloc during insertion.
> This series deals with this by introducing nested tables.
> 
> The first two patches removes manual hash table walks which cannot
> work on a nested table.
> 
> The final patch introduces nested tables.
> 
> I've tested this with test_rhashtable and it appears to work.

Series applied, thanks Herbert.