netdev - Re: [tbench regression fixes]: digging out smelly deadmen.

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: <20081031.025159.51432990.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:51:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, zbr@...emap.net, rjw@...k.pl, mingo@...e.hu,
	s0mbre@...rvice.net.ru, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	efault@....de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [tbench regression fixes]: digging out smelly deadmen.

From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:40:16 +0200 (EET)

> Let me remind that it is just a single process, so no ping-pong & other 
> lock related cache effects should play any significant role here, no? (I'm 
> no expert though :-)).

Not locks or ping-pongs perhaps, I guess.  So it just sends and
receives over a socket, implementing both ends of the communication
in the same process?

If hash chain conflicts do happen for those 2 sockets, just traversing
the chain 2 entries deep could show up.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html