On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 01:14:18PM +0800, Xin Long wrote: > when I use rhashtable_lookup_insert_key, sometimes it will return -EBUSY. > im not sure if there is a good way to workabout it. > or I should just try again and again until it's inserted successfully ? > > I have seen some use in kernel by now, but it seems that no one consider > this issue for their cases. but it indeed exists in my case. > > did I use it incorrectly or something else ?
AFAIK, insert returning -EBUSY is a situation users have to be aware of and retry the insert. I sent a patch[1] to fix this in test_rhashtable. That patch though retried in case of -ENOMEM as well, which was considered wrong to do and therefore it wasn't accepted. But in my test runs, -ENOMEM happened quite frequently and it also wasn't a permanent error. For details, see the following discussion[2]. Herbert, did you manage to reproduce the problem meanwhile? If so, was there any progress on fixing rhashtable? Otherwise, I could respin my patch from [1] to cover only -EBUSY case by default and add a parameter to make non-permanent -ENOMEM visible. Cheers, Phil [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/28/197 [2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/28/281 > > Thanks. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
