linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] dlm fix for 2.6.38

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20110214154601.GS18742@htj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:46:01 +0100
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	David Teigland <teigland@...hat.com>
Cc:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] dlm fix for 2.6.38

Hello,

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:38:44AM -0500, David Teigland wrote:
> find_lkb seems to be getting an actual, but wrong lkid, so it's returning
> the wrong lkb in the receive routines.  It happens fairly quickly with
> multiple wq threads, but not at all with single.  One suspect I'm going to
> look at are the ls_stub and fields in the lockspace struct.  I'm not
> convinced extra send/recv threads give us that much benefit in practice,
> so it's not my top priority at the moment.

Hmmm... okay.  At any rate, please use alloc[_ordered]_workqueue()
interface.  create[_singlethread]_workqueue() will be deprecated soon.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/