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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: marc.zyngier@arm.com
Cc: thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com,
	antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mvpp2: Prevent userspace from changing TX affinities
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:31:56 +0900 (KST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171108.103156.136116035076396821.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171104123347.20540-1-marc.zyngier@arm.com>

From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Date: Sat,  4 Nov 2017 12:33:47 +0000

> The mvpp2 driver can't cope at all with the TX affinities being
> changed from userspace, and spit an endless stream of
> 
> [   91.779920] mvpp2 f4000000.ethernet eth2: wrong cpu on the end of Tx processing
> [   91.779930] mvpp2 f4000000.ethernet eth2: wrong cpu on the end of Tx processing
> [   91.780402] mvpp2 f4000000.ethernet eth2: wrong cpu on the end of Tx processing
> [   91.780406] mvpp2 f4000000.ethernet eth2: wrong cpu on the end of Tx processing
> [   91.780415] mvpp2 f4000000.ethernet eth2: wrong cpu on the end of Tx processing
> [   91.780418] mvpp2 f4000000.ethernet eth2: wrong cpu on the end of Tx processing
> 
> rendering the box completely useless (I've measured around 600k
> interrupts/s on a 8040 box) once irqbalance kicks in and start
> doing its job.
> 
> Obviously, the driver was never designed with this in mind. So let's
> work around the problem by preventing userspace from interacting
> with these interrupts altogether.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-11-08  1:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-04 12:33 [PATCH] net: mvpp2: Prevent userspace from changing TX affinities Marc Zyngier
2017-11-08  1:31 ` David Miller [this message]

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