From: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 08:36:34 +0800
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 02:55:34PM +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
>> When rhashtable_insert_rehash() fails with ENOMEM, this indicates that
>> we can't allocate the necessary memory in the current context but the
>> limits as set by the user would still allow to grow.
>>
>> Thus attempt an async resize in the background where we can allocate
>> using GFP_KERNEL which is more likely to succeed. The insertion itself
>> will still fail to indicate pressure.
>>
>> This fixes a bug where the table would never continue growing once the
>> utilization is above 100%.
>>
>> Fixes: ccd57b1bd324 ("rhashtable: Add immediate rehash during insertion")
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tg...@suug.ch>
>
> Good catch. But I think this call should happen in
> rhashtable_insert_rehash since it's on the slow-path.
Ok, then I expect a respin of this series.
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