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Date:      Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:04:29 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, ahmed.aneeth@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-(
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902251051230.64866@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1LcGMf-000Om9-Ey@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
References:  <E1LcGMf-000Om9-Ey@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>

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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



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