linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] tcp/dcpp: Un-pin tw

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: <CANn89iJYX8e_3Or9a5Q55NuQ8ZAHfYL+p_SpM0yz91sdj4HqtQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:35:24 +0200
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>
Cc: dccp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, mleitner@...hat.com, 
	David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>, 
	Tomas Glozar <tglozar@...hat.com>, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>, 
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] tcp/dcpp: Un-pin tw_timer

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 1:34 PM Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hatcom> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This is v5 of the series where the tw_timer is un-pinned to get rid of
> interferences in isolated CPUs setups.
>
> The first patch is a new one stemming from Jakub's bug reported. It's there
> mainly to make the reviewing a bit easier, but as it changes behaviour it should
> be squashed with the second one.
>
> Revisions
> =========
>
> v4 -> v5
> ++++++++
>
> o Rebased against latest Linus' tree
> o Converted tw_timer into a delayed work following Jakub's bug report on v4
>   http://lore.kernel.org/r/20240411100536.224fa1e7@kernel.org

What was the issue again ?

Please explain precisely why it was fundamentally tied to the use of
timers (and this was not possible to fix the issue without
adding work queues and more dependencies to TCP stack)