linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RT 2/6] tcp: Remove superfluous BH-disable around listening

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Date:   Mon, 9 Nov 2020 18:35:58 +0100
From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Carsten Emde <C.Emde@...dl.org>,
        John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>, Daniel Wagner <wagi@...om.org>,
        Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>,
        "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@...il.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RT 2/6] tcp: Remove superfluous BH-disable around
 listening_hash

On 2020-11-09 12:01:06 [-0500], Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Note, I took this because it mentioned:
> 
> "Commit
>        9652dc2eb9e40 ("tcp: relax listening_hash operations")
>     
>     removed the need to disable bottom half while acquiring
>     listening_hash.lock. There are still two callers left which disable
>     bottom half before the lock is acquired."
> 
> And that commit was added in 4.10.

Yes. I was aiming to sell this as an optimisation to upstream but that
patch isn't exactly a beauty queen and that optimisation isn't enormous
so they may not want to buy it.
Also: upstream's lockdep isn't complaining here so the alternative route
is to get RT's lockdep to be quiet here as well and then drop that
patch.

Sebastian