From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 25 19:05:50 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 8D481106564A; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:05:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from fw.farid-hajji.net (fw.farid-hajji.net [213.146.115.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA5D8FC0A; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:05:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from phenom.cordula.ws (phenom [192.168.254.60]) by fw.farid-hajji.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A788C334BE; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:05:47 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:05:47 +0100 From: cpghost To: Robert Watson Message-ID: <20090225190546.GA13283@phenom.cordula.ws> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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, 25 Feb 2009 19:05:50 -0000 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. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/