Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:18:53 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next] rhashtable: Drop gfp_flags arg in insert/remove functions | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:45:46 +0100
> Reallocation is only required for shrinking and expanding and both rely > on a mutex for synchronization and callers of rhashtable_init() are in > non atomic context. Therefore, no reason to continue passing allocation > hints through the API. > > Instead, use GFP_KERNEL and add __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY to allow > for silent fall back to vzalloc() without the OOM killer jumping in as > pointed out by Eric Dumazet and Eric W. Biederman. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Applied, thanks Thomas.
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