From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Vineeth Remanan Pillai <vpillai@digitalocean.com>,
Nishanth Aravamudan <naravamudan@digitalocean.com>,
Julien Desfossez <jdesfossez@digitalocean.com>,
mingo@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, pjt@google.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
subhra.mazumdar@oracle.com, fweisbec@gmail.com,
keescook@chromium.org, kerrnel@google.com,
Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>, Aaron Lu <aaron.lwe@gmail.com>,
Aubrey Li <aubrey.intel@gmail.com>,
Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 00/16] Core scheduling v3
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 08:59:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c005e75c-0966-63ca-bce7-05f545702688@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190827215035.GH2332@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On 8/27/19 2:50 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:14:17PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> Apple have provided a sysctl that allows applications to indicate that
>> specific threads should make use of core isolation while allowing
>> the rest of the system to make use of SMT, and browsers (Safari, Firefox
>> and Chrome, at least) are now making use of this. Trying to do something
>> similar using cgroups seems a bit awkward. Would something like this be
>> reasonable?
>
> Sure; like I wrote earlier; I only did the cgroup thing because I was
> lazy and it was the easiest interface to hack on in a hurry.
>
> The rest of the ABI nonsense can 'trivially' be done later; if when we
> decide to actually do this.
>
> And given MDS, I'm still not entirely convinced it all makes sense. If
> it were just L1TF, then yes, but now...
>
For MDS, core-scheduler does prevent thread to thread
attack between user space threads running on sibling CPU threads.
Yes, it doesn't prevent the user to kernel attack from sibling
which will require additional mitigation measure. However, it does
block a major attack vector for MDS if HT is enabled.
Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-28 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 161+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-29 20:36 [RFC PATCH v3 00/16] Core scheduling v3 Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-05-29 20:36 ` [RFC PATCH v3 01/16] stop_machine: Fix stop_cpus_in_progress ordering Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-08-08 10:54 ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-26 16:19 ` [RFC PATCH v3 01/16] " mark gross
2019-08-26 16:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-29 20:36 ` [RFC PATCH v3 02/16] sched: Fix kerneldoc comment for ia64_set_curr_task Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-08-08 10:55 ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-26 16:20 ` [RFC PATCH v3 02/16] " mark gross
2019-05-29 20:36 ` [RFC PATCH v3 03/16] sched: Wrap rq::lock access Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-05-29 20:36 ` [RFC PATCH v3 04/16] sched/{rt,deadline}: Fix set_next_task vs pick_next_task Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-08-08 10:55 ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-29 20:36 ` [RFC PATCH v3 05/16] sched: Add task_struct pointer to sched_class::set_curr_task Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-08-08 10:57 ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-29 20:36 ` [RFC PATCH v3 06/16] sched/fair: Export newidle_balance() Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-08-08 10:58 ` [tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Expose newidle_balance() tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-29 20:36 ` [RFC PATCH v3 07/16] sched: Allow put_prev_task() to drop rq->lock Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-08-08 10:58 ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-26 16:51 ` [RFC PATCH v3 07/16] " mark gross
2019-05-29 20:36 ` [RFC PATCH v3 08/16] sched: Rework pick_next_task() slow-path Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-08-08 10:59 ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-26 17:01 ` [RFC PATCH v3 08/16] " mark gross
2019-05-29 20:36 ` [RFC PATCH v3 09/16] sched: Introduce sched_class::pick_task() Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-08-26 17:14 ` mark gross
2019-05-29 20:36 ` [RFC PATCH v3 10/16] sched: Core-wide rq->lock Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-05-31 11:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-31 15:23 ` Vineeth Pillai
2019-05-29 20:36 ` [RFC PATCH v3 11/16] sched: Basic tracking of matching tasks Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-08-26 20:59 ` mark gross
2019-05-29 20:36 ` [RFC PATCH v3 12/16] sched: A quick and dirty cgroup tagging interface Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-05-29 20:36 ` [RFC PATCH v3 13/16] sched: Add core wide task selection and scheduling Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-06-07 23:36 ` Pawan Gupta
2019-05-29 20:36 ` [RFC PATCH v3 14/16] sched/fair: Add a few assertions Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-05-29 20:36 ` [RFC PATCH v3 15/16] sched: Trivial forced-newidle balancer Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-05-29 20:36 ` [RFC PATCH v3 16/16] sched: Debug bits Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-05-29 21:02 ` Peter Oskolkov
2019-05-30 14:04 ` [RFC PATCH v3 00/16] Core scheduling v3 Aubrey Li
2019-05-30 14:17 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-05-31 4:55 ` Aubrey Li
2019-05-31 3:01 ` Aaron Lu
2019-05-31 5:12 ` Aubrey Li
2019-05-31 6:09 ` Aaron Lu
2019-05-31 6:53 ` Aubrey Li
2019-05-31 7:44 ` Aaron Lu
2019-05-31 8:26 ` Aubrey Li
2019-05-31 21:08 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-06-06 15:26 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-06-12 1:52 ` Li, Aubrey
2019-06-12 16:06 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-06-12 16:33 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-06-13 0:03 ` Subhra Mazumdar
2019-06-13 3:22 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-06-17 2:51 ` Aubrey Li
2019-06-19 18:33 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-07-18 10:07 ` Aaron Lu
2019-07-18 23:27 ` Tim Chen
2019-07-19 5:52 ` Aaron Lu
2019-07-19 11:48 ` Aubrey Li
2019-07-19 18:33 ` Tim Chen
2019-07-22 10:26 ` Aubrey Li
2019-07-22 10:43 ` Aaron Lu
2019-07-23 2:52 ` Aubrey Li
2019-07-25 14:30 ` Aaron Lu
2019-07-25 14:31 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] wrapper for cfs_rq->min_vruntime Aaron Lu
2019-07-25 14:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] core vruntime comparison Aaron Lu
2019-08-06 14:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-25 14:33 ` [PATCH 3/3] temp hack to make tick based schedule happen Aaron Lu
2019-07-25 21:42 ` [RFC PATCH v3 00/16] Core scheduling v3 Li, Aubrey
2019-07-26 15:21 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-07-26 21:29 ` Tim Chen
2019-07-31 2:42 ` Li, Aubrey
2019-08-02 15:37 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-08-05 15:55 ` Tim Chen
2019-08-06 3:24 ` Aaron Lu
2019-08-06 6:56 ` Aubrey Li
2019-08-06 7:04 ` Aaron Lu
2019-08-06 12:24 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-08-06 13:49 ` Aaron Lu
2019-08-06 16:14 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-08-06 14:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-06 15:53 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-08-06 17:03 ` Tim Chen
2019-08-06 17:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-06 21:19 ` Tim Chen
2019-08-08 6:47 ` Aaron Lu
2019-08-08 17:27 ` Tim Chen
2019-08-08 21:42 ` Tim Chen
2019-08-10 14:15 ` Aaron Lu
2019-08-12 15:38 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-08-13 2:24 ` Aaron Lu
2019-08-08 12:55 ` Aaron Lu
2019-08-08 16:39 ` Tim Chen
2019-08-10 14:18 ` Aaron Lu
2019-08-05 20:09 ` Phil Auld
2019-08-06 13:54 ` Aaron Lu
2019-08-06 14:17 ` Phil Auld
2019-08-06 14:41 ` Aaron Lu
2019-08-06 14:55 ` Phil Auld
2019-08-07 8:58 ` Dario Faggioli
2019-08-07 17:10 ` Tim Chen
2019-08-15 16:09 ` Dario Faggioli
2019-08-16 2:33 ` Aaron Lu
2019-09-05 1:44 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-09-06 22:17 ` Tim Chen
2019-09-18 21:27 ` Tim Chen
2019-09-06 18:30 ` Tim Chen
2019-09-11 14:02 ` Aaron Lu
2019-09-11 16:19 ` Tim Chen
2019-09-11 16:47 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-09-12 12:35 ` Aaron Lu
2019-09-12 17:29 ` Tim Chen
2019-09-13 14:15 ` Aaron Lu
2019-09-13 17:13 ` Tim Chen
2019-09-30 11:53 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-10-02 20:48 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-10-10 13:54 ` Aaron Lu
2019-10-10 14:29 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-10-11 7:33 ` Aaron Lu
2019-10-11 11:32 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-10-11 12:01 ` Aaron Lu
2019-10-11 12:10 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-10-12 3:55 ` Aaron Lu
2019-10-13 12:44 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-10-14 9:57 ` Aaron Lu
2019-10-21 12:30 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-09-12 12:04 ` Aaron Lu
2019-09-12 17:05 ` Tim Chen
2019-09-13 13:57 ` Aaron Lu
2019-09-12 23:12 ` Aubrey Li
2019-09-15 14:14 ` Aaron Lu
2019-09-18 1:33 ` Aubrey Li
2019-09-18 20:40 ` Tim Chen
2019-09-18 22:16 ` Aubrey Li
2019-09-30 14:36 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-10-29 20:40 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-11-01 21:42 ` Tim Chen
2019-10-29 9:11 ` Dario Faggioli
2019-10-29 9:15 ` Dario Faggioli
2019-10-29 9:16 ` Dario Faggioli
2019-10-29 9:17 ` Dario Faggioli
2019-10-29 9:18 ` Dario Faggioli
2019-10-29 9:18 ` Dario Faggioli
2019-10-29 9:19 ` Dario Faggioli
2019-10-29 9:20 ` Dario Faggioli
2019-10-29 20:34 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-11-15 16:30 ` Dario Faggioli
2019-09-25 2:40 ` Aubrey Li
2019-09-25 17:24 ` Tim Chen
2019-09-25 22:07 ` Aubrey Li
2019-09-30 15:22 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-08-27 21:14 ` Matthew Garrett
2019-08-27 21:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-28 15:30 ` Phil Auld
2019-08-28 16:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-28 16:37 ` Tim Chen
2019-08-29 14:30 ` Phil Auld
2019-08-29 14:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-10 14:27 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-09-18 21:12 ` Tim Chen
2019-08-28 15:59 ` Tim Chen [this message]
2019-08-28 16:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-27 23:24 ` Aubrey Li
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