From: Oliver Neukum <oneu...@suse.com> Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 10:42:48 +0200
> Am Montag, den 22.05.2017, 11:54 -0400 schrieb David Miller: >> >> Unfortunately without a real notifier of some sort (there isn't one, and >> it isn't actually easy to come up with a clean way to do this which is >> probably why it doesn't exist yet in the first place) I really cannot >> recommend anything better. >> >> That being said, probably for the time being we should just backoff each >> and every request, always trying initially to do the higher order thing. > > We could use a counter. After the first failure, do it once, after the > second twice and so on. And reset the counter as a higher order > allocation works. (just bound it somewhere) So an exponential backoff, that might work.
