From: Jarek Poplawski <
jarkao2@...>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 00:56:40 +0200
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 01:22:20PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> Well, if you look at that commit the bisect pointed to Jarek, it is a
>> change which starts causing a situation which never happened before.
>> Namely, timers added on one cpu can be migrated and fire on another.
>>
>> So this could be exposing races in the networking that technically
>> always existed.
>
> I'm not sure I get your point; could you give some example?
> Actually, I've suspected races in timers code.
Let's say that a particular networking timer always gets
re-added on the cpu where the timer fires.
In that case, beforehand, no inter-cpu races could possibly
be tested. But with the new timer code, such races could
now be potentially triggered.
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