Re: Question on rhashtable in worst-case scenario.

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Mar 31 2016 - 03:50:32 EST


On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 09:46:45AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
> In this case, I think perhaps you can just patch your local system with
> the many interfaces connecting to the same AP to add the parameter
> Herbert suggested (.insecure_elasticity = true in sta_rht_params). This
> is, after all, very much a case that "normal" operation doesn't even
> get close to.

I think you should just turn it on everywhere for mac80211. Chain
length checks simply don't make sense when you allow duplicate
keys in the hash table.

Cheers,
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