linux-kernel - Re: commit 16ecba59 breaks 82574L under heavy load.

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: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

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

Message-ID: <20170720140027.GR18556@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date:   Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:00:27 -0400
From:   lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:     Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org,
        Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Subject: Re: commit 16ecba59 breaks 82574L under heavy load.

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 05:07:47PM -0700, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
> Are you sure about this? In my testing, while triggering the overrun
> with the msleep, I read ICR when entering e1000_msix_other() and RXO is
> consistently set.

I had thousands of calls to e1000_msix_other where the only bit set
was OTHER.

I don't know if the cause is overruns, it just seems plausible.

> I'm working on a patch that uses that fact to handle the situation and
> limit the interrupt.

Excellent.

Running in MSI mode rather than MSI-X seems to not have the problem of
unexpected interrupts, but has other issues (such as loosing the IRQ
affinity setting if you do ifconfig down;ifconfig up on the interface,
which does not happen in MSI-X's case.)  That's rather annoying as you
can't set the affinity before bringing up the interface which is rather
undesirable.

-- 
Len Sorensen