Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:50:06 +0100 From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Arp locking patches Message-ID: <1124189406.2492.7.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050813190016.GB96031@cell.sick.ru> References: <20050813145127.M49387@ury.york.ac.uk> <20050813190016.GB96031@cell.sick.ru>
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On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 23:00 +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 02:56:37PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > G> I was wondering if the arp locking patches (sys/netinet/if_ether.c 1.138-9 > G> and related changes) were planned to be MFC'd before 6.0 is released? I'm > G> seeing a panic on a dual CPU machine running BETA2/amd64 and am seeing the > G> following panic semi-regularly which looks like it may be related to the > G> lack of locking on the arp tables. > > Sure. They are in release TODO list. > > G> Note that the above was provoked with Peter Holm's stress test kit, but I > G> have also had it on this machine in everyday use. I'd be happy to test > G> any patch. > > Just take patches from HEAD and test them. I've now been running with them for three days without a panic. Previously, the machine couldn't run the stress test suite for more than an hour or two. This is with the MFC of: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-all/2005-August/131362.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-all/2005-August/131504.html Thanks, Gavin
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