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

From	Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads
Date	2015-09-01 14:50 +0200
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On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 07:43:00PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 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.

This is not an inherent behaviour of the implementation but general
agreement. The insertion may fail non-permanently (returning -EBUSY),
users are expected to handle this by retrying the operation.

Cheers, Phil
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[PATCH 1/3] rhashtable-test: add cond_resched() to thread test Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> - 2015-08-28 12:30 +0200
  [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> - 2015-08-28 12:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> - 2015-08-28 13:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> - 2015-08-28 13:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> - 2015-08-28 15:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> - 2015-08-29 00:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> - 2015-08-29 11:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-08-30 09:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> - 2015-08-31 13:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-01 13:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> - 2015-09-01 14:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-01 15:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 15:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> - 2015-09-01 15:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-01 16:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> - 2015-09-01 16:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-01 16:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> - 2015-09-01 16:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-01 16:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> - 2015-09-01 17:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-02 04:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable-test: retry insert operations in threads Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> - 2015-09-02 09:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3/3] rhashtable-test: calculate max_entries value by default Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> - 2015-08-28 12:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] rhashtable-test: calculate max_entries value by  default Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> - 2015-08-28 13:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] rhashtable-test: add cond_resched() to thread test Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> - 2015-08-28 13:10 +0200

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