Bug#592187: [stable] Bug#576838: virtio network crashes again
Am Montag, den 30.08.2010, 10:21 -0700 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 09:46:36AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
> > Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:50:17 -0700
> >
> > > As I stated above, I need the ACK from David to be able to add these
> > > patches.
> > >
> > > David?
> >
> > I believe there were some regressions caused by these changes that were
> > fixed later, a bit after those commites went into the tree.
> >
> > I'm only confortable ACK'ing this if someone does due diligence and
> > checks for any such follow-on fixes to that series.
> >
> > It's a pretty non-trivial set of patches and has the potential to kill
> > performance which would be a very serious regression.
>
> Fair enough.
Yep, thanks!
> Who's done the checks to find out any problems with these patches?
I'll skim the changelogs in 2.6.3[345].x to see if there are any related
patches.
> And what is keeping you from moving to the .35 kernel tree instead?
Basically, distribution support. Debian Squeeze will ship with 2.6.32,
as Ubuntu already did for their current LTS - and I really want Debian's
kernel to be as reliable and stable as possible (btw, that's why I
initally reported this as a debian bug, because at that time I wasn't
using vanilla kernels. Now that I know how git bisect works, it will
hopefully be easier for me to pinpoint regressions in the future).
Also, We do not really have enough hardware to test new upstream
releases thouroughly before going into production (e.g., we only have
one big tape library with one big disk pool, so no test if
tape-on-mptsas and aacraid work properly and stable in a newer upstream
releases.
Kind regards,
Lukas
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