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From: Tomasz Wroblewski <tomasz.wroblewski@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Netback vif reference count mismatching in latest
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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 13:07:15 +0100
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On 11/28/2013 12:45 PM, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Tomasz Wroblewski
> <tomasz.wroblewski@citrix.com> wrote:
>> On 11/27/2013 06:02 PM, Tomasz Wroblewski wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> OK, I get what you mean. The separation of vif disconnect and free is
>>>> indeed causing problem.
>>>>
>>>> I think the right fix would be to make things symmetric again.
>>>>
>>>> Does the following *untested* patch work for you? If so I will submit a
>>>> proper patch to netdev.
>>>>
>>> Thanks, indeed your patch works fine after a quick linux hibernate tests.
>>> But I will do more comprehensive test tomorrow morning (such as
>>> with windows guests as well, and things like rebooting backend network vm
>>> while front stays up) and get back to you with the result, so
>>> probably best to hold off a little :) thanks!
>>>
>> Wei, gave your patch more testing now, as stated, and haven't noticed any
>> trouble.
>>
>
> Thanks, please give me final confirmation if everything passes.
>
it did, not planning to do more testing as of now (I tested S3/S4 in linuxes/windowses, reboots of network vm whilst frontend stays up and 
general lifecycle ops)

> Wei.
>
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