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On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 08:24:56PM +0300, Julian Anastasov wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2026, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
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> > On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 05:15:50PM +0300, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > On Tue, 31 Mar 2026, Waiman Long wrote:
> > >
> > > > v2:
> > > > - Rebased on top of linux-next
> > > >
> > > > Since commit 041ee6f3727a ("kthread: Rely on HK_TYPE_DOMAIN for
> > > > preferred
> > > > affinity management"), the HK_TYPE_KTHREAD housekeeping cpumask may no
> > > > longer be correct in showing the actual CPU affinity of kthreads that
> > > > have no predefined CPU affinity. As the ipvs networking code is still
> > > > using HK_TYPE_KTHREAD, we need to make HK_TYPE_KTHREAD reflect the
> > > > reality.
> > > >
> > > > This patch series makes HK_TYPE_KTHREAD an alias of HK_TYPE_DOMAIN
> > > > and uses RCU to protect access to the HK_TYPE_KTHREAD housekeeping
> > > > cpumask.
> > > >
> > > > Waiman Long (2):
> > > > sched/isolation: Make HK_TYPE_KTHREAD an alias of HK_TYPE_DOMAIN
> > > > ipvs: Guard access of HK_TYPE_KTHREAD cpumask with RCU
> > >
> > > The patchset looks good to me for nf-next, thanks!
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Pablo, Florian, as a bugfix this patchset missed
> > > the chance to be applied before the changes that are in
> > > nf-next in ip_vs.h, there is little fuzz there. If there
> > > is no chance to resolve it somehow, we can apply it
> > > on top of nf-next where it now applies successfully.
> >
> > One way to handle this is to follow up with nf-next as you suggest,
> > then send a backport that applies cleanly for -stable once it is
> > released.
> >
> > Else, let me know if I am misunderstanding.
>
> This patchset is now material for the net tree. To help it,
> I just posted patch "ipvs: fix races around est_mutex and est_cpulist"
> that can be applied before this patchset to the net tree.
> Can we get this patchset for the net tree?
Yes, I am preparing a PR.
BTW, did you get look at the report provided by the AI assistant?
https://sashiko.dev/#/?list=org.kernel.vger.netfilter-devel
If not, please repost to get initial feedback from it.
Thanks.
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