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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 20:08:48 +0530
From: Tejaswi Tanikella <tejaswit@...eaurora.org>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, f.fainelli@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch,
edumazet@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv4: igmp: hold wakelock to prevent delayed reports
On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 11:06:40AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Tejaswi Tanikella <tejaswit@...eaurora.org>
> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 19:35:41 +0530
>
> > On receiving a IGMPv2/v3 query, based on max_delay set in the header a
> > timer is started to send out a response after a random time within
> > max_delay. If the system then moves into suspend state, Report is
> > delayed until system wakes up.
> >
> > In one reported scenario, on arm64 devices, max_delay was set to 10s,
> > Reports were consistantly delayed if the timer is scheduled after 5 plus
> > seconds.
> >
> > Hold wakelock while starting the timer to prevent moving into suspend
> > state.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tejaswi Tanikella <tejaswit@...eaurora.org>
>
> As Florian stated, this won't be the only networking facility to hit
> a problem like this. So, if we go down this route, we probably want
> to generically solve this.
>
> But I have a deeper concern.
>
> Do we really want every timer based querying mechanism to prevent a
> system from being able to suspend?
>
> We get to the point where external entities can generate traffic which
> can prevent a remote system from entering suspend state.
Like you suggested maybe aquiring a wakelock will unnecessarily stop the
system from suspending.
Would using alarmtimer be better? It seems similar to a hrtimer but can
wake the system up from suspend.
This should allow the system to suspend till the timer expires. But might
cause repeated wake-ups and suspends.
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