Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:28:07 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Various route locking fixes merged to stable/7 (was: Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-() Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.0902252027450.509@freemac.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902251130240.64866@fledge.watson.org> References: <E1LcGMf-000Om9-Ey@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902251051230.64866@fledge.watson.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902251130240.64866@fledge.watson.org>
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Robert Watson wrote: > Just a minor heads up: I've merged both Kip Macy's lock order fixes to the > kernel routing code, and the route locking and reference counting fixes from > kern/130652 to stable/7. These fixes should correct a number of reported > network-related hangs. We might want to release a subset of these as an > errata patch to 7.1 if they shake out well in 7-stable. +1 Charles > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of Cambridge > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Robert Watson wrote: > >> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Pete French wrote: >> >>>> FYI, I'm currently awaiting testing results from Pete on the MFC of a >>>> number of routing table locking fixes, and once that's merged (hopefully >>>> tomorrow?) I'll start on the patches in the above PR. I've taken a >>>> crash-course in routing table locking in the last few days... :-) >>> >>> Just to let you know that I have had zero crashes since I out the patch >>> live on sunday. Of course thats only three days, but it does look very >>> much like it has fixed it. I am also running with the other routing table >>> patch too.. >>> >>> At this point no news is good news, as it is just sitting there ticking >>> away nicely to itself. I will roll it out to a few more machines over the >>> next few days. >>> >>> But looking good so far, I would encourage other people to try the ptches >>> if they are having problems... >> >> Thanks -- I've gone ahead and merged the patch to 7.x (r189026) so that I >> can look at the PR and get that in-progress. Since the code affected by >> the PR is no longer in 8.x, I'll merge directly to 7.x, and probably fairly >> quickly since you've had it in production for a while. >> >> Robert N M Watson >> Computer Laboratory >> University of Cambridge >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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