kinda headsup..
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Mon Jun 9 18:53:44 UTC 2008
Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote:
>> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>> Julian Elischer wrote:
>>>> At the BSDCAn devsummit we discussed how to proceed with committing
>>>> Vimage to -current.
>>>>
>>>> the Milestones included something like:
>>>>
>>>> June 8 (today) Headsup....
>>>>
>>>> June 15 commit changes that add macros for vnet
>>>> (network module) and vinet(inet virtualisation)
>>>> with macros defined in such a way to make 0 actual
>>>> differences. provable by md5 etc.
>>>> Documentat
>>>> s/hostname/g//V_hostname/
>>>> #define V_hostname hostname
>>>> 2 weeks settle time, next step prepared, tested
>>>> and reviewed.
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> diffs can be found at:
>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/~julian/vimage.diff and it are usually
>>>> fairly up to date.
>>>
>>> Did Marko fix the panic I saw back in May? I wasn't even able to
>>> boot a vimage kernel yet, let alone begin testing it :)
>>
>> is this the ipv6 panic?
>> I must admit I have not heard..
>> he was looking at it back thne and has committed stuff since then..
>>
>> I use it with IPV4 quite successfully quite often.
>>
>> note that the first commits are pretty much quaranteed to not have
>> that problem.. as they are effective NOPs
>>
>>
>> I'll get back to you on it..
>
> Yes, the panic occurs when one runs a vimage kernel on a CVS world. It's
> presumably a case of incomplete validation of the input from userland.
>
> I'd still like someone to validate the initial commits and establish a
> framework for ongoing testing, because we've seen cases recently where
> things as simple as structure alignment changes can have >30%
we have set asside a step to confirm this..
but initial testing has shown no impact.
> performance impact, so if it's not entirely a NOP then there is still
> potential for trouble.
>
> Kris
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