On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 07:43:00PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 01:00:12PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote: > > > > The variable would be used to track if the worker has failed to allocate > > memory in background. > > > > Since the failing insertion will be retried, subsequent inserts are not > > necessary unrelated. > > If an insertion fails it is never retried. The only thing that is > retried is the expansion of the table. So I have no idea what > you are talking about.
This is not an inherent behaviour of the implementation but general agreement. The insertion may fail non-permanently (returning -EBUSY), users are expected to handle this by retrying the operation. Cheers, Phil -- 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
