On 16.01, Thomas Graf wrote: > On 01/16/15 at 04:43pm, David Laight wrote: > > The walker is unlikely to see items that get inserted early in the hash > > table even without a resize. > > I don't follow, you have to explain this statement. > > Walkers which don't want to see duplicates or miss entries should > just take the mutex. Well, we do have a problem with interrupted dumps. As you know once the netlink message buffer is full, we return to userspace and continue dumping during the next read. Expanding obviously changes the order since we rehash from bucket N to N and 2N, so this will indeed cause duplicate (doesn't matter) and missed entries. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
