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Date:      Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:05:47 +0100
From:      cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-(
Message-ID:  <20090225190546.GA13283@phenom.cordula.ws>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902251051230.64866@fledge.watson.org>
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:04:29AM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> 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.

Great! I hope this patch will also fix the mysterious hangs
I've experienced on Soekris routers since nov/dec 2008. Will
try in a few days and report back any further hangs.

> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge

Regards,
-cpghost.

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