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

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Apr 04 2019 - 06:29:20 EST


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?

Looks good. If routed through the network tree because usage there:

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Otherwise let me know and I'll carry them.