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Bug#592187: [stable] Bug#576838: virtio network crashes again



Am Donnerstag, den 09.09.2010, 04:23 +0100 schrieb Ben Hutchings:
> On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 13:25 +0200, Lukas Kolbe wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 05:26 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 17:34 +0200, Lukas Kolbe wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 06:35 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > > Then how about convincing the Debian kernel developers to accept these
> > > > > patches, and work through any regressions that might be found and after
> > > > > that, reporting back to us?
> > > > 
> > > > Ben?
> > > > 
> > > > The reason I contacted you was precisely because it went into 2.6.33.2,
> > > > e.g. was already accepted into a -stalbe release. I didn't expect it to
> > > > be such an issue.
> > > 
> > > That's not likely if people spread FUD about the backlog patches!
> > > 
> > > Dave, did you explicitly exclude these patches from 2.6.32 when you
> > > submitted them to stable, or is it just that 5534979 "udp: use limited
> > > socket backlog" depends on a1ab77f "ipv6: udp: Optimise multicast
> > > reception"?  The former patch doesn't look too hard to backport to
> > > 2.6.32 (see below).
> > 
> > Anybody?
> > We've currently rolled out our own 2.6.32 kernel with these fixes
> > applied, and they indeed fix a system crash under our nfs-load. What
> > else can I do to get these fixes into either Debians' 2.6.32 or Greg's
> > stable 2.6.32 series?
> [...]
> 
> These patches will be included in Debian's version 2.6.32-22.  We'll see
> how that goes.

I owe you a few beers. Thanks a million!

> Ben.

Lukas







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