linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net 0/3] Fix for BPF devmap percpu allocation splat

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Message-ID: <59E773DC.5090206@iogearbox.net>
Date:   Wed, 18 Oct 2017 17:31:40 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
CC:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, sp3485@...umbia.edu,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/3] Fix for BPF devmap percpu allocation splat

On 10/18/2017 05:28 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net> wrote:
>>
>> Higher prio imo would be to make the allocation itself faster
>> though, I remember we talked about this back in May wrt hashtable,
>> but I kind of lost track whether there was an update on this in
>> the mean time. ;-)
>
> new percpu allocator by Dennis fixed those issues. It's in 4.14

Ah, perfect!