netdev - Re: rhashtable issue

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Message-ID: <Z0LxtPp1b-jy2Klg@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:28:20 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rhashtable issue - -EBUSY

On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 08:25:38PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
>
> Failure should not just be extremely unlikely.  It should be
> mathematically impossible. 

Please define mathematically impossible.  If you mean zero then
it's pointless since modern computers are known to have non-zero
failure rates.

If you have a definite value in mind, then we could certainly
tailor the maximum elasticity to achieve that goal.

Cheers,
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