Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6: avoid errors due to per-cpu atomic alloc

2016-11-22 Thread Mike Manning
On 11/22/2016 12:18 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > On 22.11.2016 11:34, Mike Manning wrote: >> Bursts of failures may occur when adding IPv6 routes via Netlink to the >> kernel when testing under scale (e.g. 500 routes lost out of 1M). The >> reason is that percpu.c:pcpu_balance_workfn() is not

Re: [PATCH] net: ipv6: avoid errors due to per-cpu atomic alloc

2016-11-22 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
On 22.11.2016 11:34, Mike Manning wrote: > Bursts of failures may occur when adding IPv6 routes via Netlink to the > kernel when testing under scale (e.g. 500 routes lost out of 1M). The > reason is that percpu.c:pcpu_balance_workfn() is not guaranteed to have > extended the area map in time for th