netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] locking/static_key: improve rate limited labels

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Message-ID: <20190402070319.GF12232@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Tue, 2 Apr 2019 09:03:19 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org, yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com,
        mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...ronome.com,
        alexei.starovoitov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] locking/static_key: improve rate limited labels

On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 11:21:53AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 17:08:51 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > This will be used to fix the static branch disabling in the TLS
> > code.  The net/tls/ code should be using the deferred static
> > branch type, because unprivileged users can flip the branch
> > on and off quite easily with CONFIG_TLS_DEVICE=y.
> > 
> > Second of all we shouldn't take the jump label locks from
> > the RX path, when the socket is destroyed.  This can be avoided
> > with some slight code refactoring in deferred static_key as
> > it already runs from a workqueue.
> > 
> > This the series (and a simple tls patch which makes use of it)
> > applied opening 0.5M TLS connections to localhost (just calling
> > setsockopt, no data exchange) goes down from 37.9s to 12.4s.
> 
> Once/if we get positive feedback from locking folks, would it be
> possible to merge these via net-next tree alongside the patch
> converting TLS to rate limited branches?

Sorry, I've been ill, I'll try and have a look at these patches soon.