netdev - Re: [PATCH net v4 0/2] rhashtable: Fix rhltable duplicates insertion

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Date:   Thu, 8 Mar 2018 10:01:38 +0200
From:   Paul Blakey <paulb@...lanox.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     paulb@...lanox.com, tgraf@...g.ch, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kliteyn@...lanox.com, roid@...lanox.com,
        shahark@...lanox.com, markb@...lanox.com, jiri@...lanox.com,
        ogerlitz@...lanox.com, matanb@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v4 0/2] rhashtable: Fix rhltable duplicates insertion



On 07/03/2018 18:23, David Miller wrote:
> From: Paul Blakey <paulb@...lanox.com>
> Date: Wed,  7 Mar 2018 16:00:11 +0200
> 
>> On our mlx5 driver fs_core.c, we use the rhltable interface to store
>> flow groups. We noticed that sometimes we get a warning that flow group isn't
>> found at removal. This rare case was caused when a specific scenario happened,
>> insertion of a flow group with a similar match criteria (a duplicate),
>> but only where the flow group rhash_head was second (or not first)
>> on the relevant rhashtable bucket list.
>>
>> The first patch fixes it, and the second one adds a test that show
>> it is now working.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>> v4 --> v3 changes:
>>      * Added Herbert Xu's ack (thanks)
>>      * Removed extra commit tags
> 
> I already applied v3, sorry.  But I did add Herbert's ACKs.
> :-)
> 

thanks