From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 01:10:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1976F1065670; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:10:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1.sentex.ca [64.7.153.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE2E28FC18; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:10:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smtp2.sentex.ca (smtp2c.sentex.ca [64.7.153.30]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n1I1AcwZ051869; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:10:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from pyroxene.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by smtp2.sentex.ca (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n1I1AbTK023779; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:10:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from mdt-xp.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by pyroxene.sentex.ca (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n1I1AaPL031693; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:10:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <200902180110.n1I1AaPL031693@pyroxene.sentex.ca> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:10:29 -0500 To: Robert Watson , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.2, clamav-milter version 0.94.2 on clamscanner3 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 64.7.153.18 Cc: Pete French Subject: Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-( X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:10:41 -0000 At 05:38 PM 1/29/2009, Robert Watson wrote: >On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Pete French wrote: > >>I have a number of HP 1U servers, all of which were running 7.0 >>perfectly happily. I have been testing 7.1 in it's various >>incarnations for the last couple of months on our test server and >>it has performed perfectly. >> >>So the last two days I have been round upgrading all our servers, >>knowing that I had run the system stably on identical hardware for some time. > >For those following this other than Pete, who I've been in private >correspondence with: it seems that he is running into two different >deadlocks in the routing code. One of them (at least) is triggered >by a lock order problem relating to the processing of ICMP redirects >-- uncommon in most configurations, but quite a few on his network, >which triggers quickly under load. Kip Macy has corrected at least >one (both?) problems in head, and plans to MFC the fixes in the near >future. We'll follow up further once the fixes are merged, and if >any further problems transpire. Hi Robert, Do you have any other details about these issues ? Were the fixes ever MFC'd ---Mike