[v2,0/2] tcp/dcpp: tw_timer tweaks for nohz_full and PREEMPT_RT

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Valentin Schneider Nov. 15, 2023, 9:05 p.m. UTC

Hi,

This is v2 of [1] where the tw_timer is un-pinned to get rid of interferences in
isolated CPUs setups.

Patch 1 is pretty much the same as v1, just got an extra comment in
inet_twsk_deschedule_put() to highlight the race.

Patch 2 was added as AFAICT the bh_disable is no longer needed after patch 1,
and Sebastian mentioned during LPC the he had been looking at getting rid of it
for removing softirq_ctrl.lock in PREEMPT_RT.

Eric mentionned rsk_timer needs looking into, but I haven't had the time to do
that. It doesn't show up in our testing, which might be due to its relatively
low timeout (IIUC 3s).

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[e-mail]/

Valentin Schneider (2):
  tcp/dcpp: Un-pin tw_timer
  tcp/dcpp: Don't disable bh around timewait_sock initialization

 net/dccp/minisocks.c          | 14 ++++----------
 net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
 net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c      | 14 ++++----------
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

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