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Date:      Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:00:16 +0400
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Arp locking patches
Message-ID:  <20050813190016.GB96031@cell.sick.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20050813145127.M49387@ury.york.ac.uk>
References:  <20050813145127.M49387@ury.york.ac.uk>

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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.

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.
GLEBIUS-RIPN GLEB-RIPE



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