Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-(

[Mike Tancsa]

At 05:38 PM 1/29/2009, Robert Watson wrote:

>On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Pete French wrote:
>
>>I have a number of HP 1U servers, all of which were running 7.0 
>>perfectly happily. I have been testing 7.1 in it's various 
>>incarnations for the last couple of months on our test server and 
>>it has performed perfectly.
>>
>>So the last two days I have been round upgrading all our servers, 
>>knowing that I had run the system stably on identical hardware for some time.
>
>For those following this other than Pete, who I've been in private 
>correspondence with: it seems that he is running into two different 
>deadlocks in the routing code.  One of them (at least) is triggered 
>by a lock order problem relating to the processing of ICMP redirects 
>-- uncommon in most configurations, but quite a few on his network, 
>which triggers quickly under load.  Kip Macy has corrected at least 
>one (both?) problems in head, and plans to MFC the fixes in the near 
>future.  We'll follow up further once the fixes are merged, and if 
>any further problems transpire.

Hi Robert,
         Do you have any other details about these issues ? Were the 
fixes ever MFC'd

         ---Mike