From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 16 10:50:11 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12AE916A41F; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:50:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (mail-gw0.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 730CC43D48; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:50:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (buffy-128.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.160]) by mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7GAo77i005781; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:50:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.3/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7GAo7T0003765; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:50:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.3/8.13.4/Submit) id j7GAo6Q8003762; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:50:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: Gleb Smirnoff In-Reply-To: <20050813190016.GB96031@cell.sick.ru> References: <20050813145127.M49387@ury.york.ac.uk> <20050813190016.GB96031@cell.sick.ru> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:50:06 +0100 Message-Id: <1124189406.2492.7.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Arp locking patches X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:50:11 -0000 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