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Date:      Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:30:36 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Rong-En Fan <grafan@gmail.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, A.S.Usov@kvi.nl
Subject:   Re: panic: sbflush_locked on 5.4-p5/i386
Message-ID:  <20050808171707.E34546@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <6eb82e050808085132807d80@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <6eb82e0507241001615f7490@mail.gmail.com>  <20050729001511.O60522@fledge.watson.org> <6eb82e050808085132807d80@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Rong-En Fan wrote:

> After upgrading to 5-STABLE (about Aug 6), it works very good. With 
> mpsafenet=1, it can work more than one day without panic. For 5.4-p5, it 
> will panic at most half day or so. This bug seems fixed after 5.4 is 
> released. I'll keep watching this machine. Will let you know if it still 
> have similar panics ;-)

If you can confirm that the problem really is fixed in -STABLE, there are 
two sets of changes that may be relevant:

- There are a number of SACK-related bug fixes in RELENG_5 that are not in
   the RELENG_5_4 branch.

- There are a number of TCP/inpcb-related locking fixes (one in particular
   for IPv6) that are in RELENG_5 but not RELENG_5_4.

We can then try and figure out which change it is that's helping, and get 
that merged to RELENG_5_4 as an errata item.  If you have IPv6 traffic, 
there are some fixes I made a month or two ago that might be particularly 
relevant during connection tear-down.

Robert N M Watson



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