From: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 22:39:56 +0800

> When an rhashtable user pounds rhashtable hard with back-to-back
> insertions we may end up growing the table in GFP_ATOMIC context.
> Unfortunately when the table reaches a certain size this often
> fails because we don't have enough physically contiguous pages
> to hold the new table.
> 
> Eric Dumazet suggested (and in fact wrote this patch) using
> __vmalloc instead which can be used in GFP_ATOMIC context.
> 
> Reported-by: Phil Sutter <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks Herbert.
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