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From: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
	Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
	Clark Williams <clrkwllms@kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org,
	Joe Damato <jdamato@fastly.com>,
	Martin Karsten <mkarsten@uwaterloo.ca>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] eventpoll: Fix priority inversion problem
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:14:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250714101410.Su0CwBrb@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250714-leumund-sinnen-44309048c53d@brauner>

On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 10:59:58AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> My lesson from this is that touching epoll without a really really good
> and urgent reason always end up a complete mess. So going forward we'll
> just be very careful here.

And my lesson is that lockless is hard. I still have no clue what is the
bug in this patch.

I am implementing a new solution now, completely ditching this old
approach. It survives some basic testing, and the numbers look promising. I
may post it later this week.

Nam

  reply	other threads:[~2025-07-14 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-27  9:08 [PATCH v3] eventpoll: Fix priority inversion problem Nam Cao
2025-05-30  5:08 ` Christian Brauner
2025-06-25 15:35   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-06-26 13:35     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2025-06-26 13:51       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-06-25 14:50 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-06-25 15:27   ` Nam Cao
2025-06-25 15:33     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-06-25 15:57       ` Nam Cao
2025-06-25 16:02         ` Nam Cao
2025-06-26 15:23 ` John Ogness
2025-06-26 15:49   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-06-26 15:56     ` Nam Cao
2025-06-30 15:08 ` K Prateek Nayak
2025-07-01 20:33   ` Florian Bezdeka
2025-07-01 12:03 ` Christian Brauner
2025-07-10  3:08   ` Xi Ruoyao
2025-07-10  3:48     ` Nam Cao
2025-07-10  4:06       ` Nam Cao
2025-07-10  4:10         ` Xi Ruoyao
2025-07-10  6:21           ` Nam Cao
2025-07-10  6:54             ` Xi Ruoyao
2025-07-10  8:32               ` Nam Cao
2025-07-10  9:47                 ` Xi Ruoyao
2025-07-11  5:02                   ` Nam Cao
2025-07-11  9:44                     ` Christian Brauner
2025-07-11  9:48                       ` Xi Ruoyao
2025-07-11  9:58                         ` Nam Cao
2025-07-11 12:09                           ` Xi Ruoyao
2025-07-11 12:21                             ` Nam Cao
2025-07-12  0:09                               ` Nam Cao
2025-07-12  8:54                                 ` Xi Ruoyao
2025-07-11  9:50                       ` Nam Cao
2025-07-14  8:59                         ` Christian Brauner
2025-07-14 10:14                           ` Nam Cao [this message]
2025-07-15  9:37                             ` Yann Ylavic
2025-07-15 10:08                               ` Nam Cao
2025-07-14 16:16                           ` Linus Torvalds

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