From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 26 01:28:09 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 094771065673 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:28:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: from xena.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B352D8FC20 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:28:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: (qmail 19204 invoked by uid 0); 26 Feb 2009 01:28:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freemac.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com) (spork@bway.net@96.57.144.66) by smtp.bway.net with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 26 Feb 2009 01:28:07 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:28:07 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman X-X-Sender: spork@freemac.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com To: Robert Watson In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (OSX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Various route locking fixes merged to stable/7 (was: 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: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:28:09 -0000 On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Robert Watson wrote: > Just a minor heads up: I've merged both Kip Macy's lock order fixes to the > kernel routing code, and the route locking and reference counting fixes from > kern/130652 to stable/7. These fixes should correct a number of reported > network-related hangs. We might want to release a subset of these as an > errata patch to 7.1 if they shake out well in 7-stable. +1 Charles > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of Cambridge > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, 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. >> >> Robert N M Watson >> Computer Laboratory >> University of Cambridge >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >