Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario.

From	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Subject	Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario.
Date	2016-03-31 17:30 +0200
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On Thu, 2016-03-31 at 08:13 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> I see insertion failure, and then later, if of course fails to delete
> as well since it was never inserted to begin with.  There is no good
> way to deal with insertion error, so just need to fix the hashtable.

Oh, that's an oversight in mac80211 - it should be dealing with
insertion failures properly. This isn't really a problem either,
although it will lead to errors in your particular case.

https://p.sipsolutions.net/cf77c78d69a231d4.txt

johannes

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Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario. Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> - 2016-03-28 22:30 +0200
  Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario. Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> - 2016-03-29 18:20 +0200
    Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario. Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-03-30 11:20 +0200
      Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario. Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-03-30 16:00 +0200
        Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario. Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-03-30 16:10 +0200
          Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario. Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-03-30 16:10 +0200
      Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario. David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-03-30 18:40 +0200
        Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario. Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> - 2016-03-30 19:00 +0200
          Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario. Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-03-31 09:50 +0200
            Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario. Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-03-31 10:00 +0200
              Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario. Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-03-31 17:40 +0200
                Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario. Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-04-01 02:50 +0200
                Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario. Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> - 2016-04-01 20:20 +0200
                Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario. Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-04-01 23:40 +0200
                Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario. Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2016-04-02 03:50 +0200
            Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario. Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> - 2016-03-31 17:20 +0200
              Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario. Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-03-31 17:30 +0200

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