On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 03:18:26AM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
> 
> Assuming that we only encounter this scenario with very large
> table sizes, it might be OK to assume that deferring the actual
> resize via the worker thread while continuing to insert above
> 100% utilization in atomic context is safe.

As test_rhashtable has demonstrated already this approach doesn't
work.  There is nothing in the kernel that will ensure that the
worker thread gets to run at all.

Cheers,
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