Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/75] 4.9.74-stable review

Neal Cardwell
2018-01-02T22:32:24Z

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 3:08 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 02:11:25PM -0500, Neal Cardwell wrote:
...
>> Thanks, Greg and David. Looks like these 2 patches will cherry-pick
>> cleanly if cherry-picked in the following sequence, on top of
>> 4.9.74-rc1, which already has 6c9e73ef9aa7 ("tcp_bbr: record "full bw
>> reached" decision in new full_bw_reached bit"):
>>
>> $ git checkout linux-stable-rc/linux-4.9.y
>>
>> $ git cherry-pick 2f6c498e4f15
>> Performing inexact rename detection: 100% (17803152/17803152), done.
>> [detached HEAD 0982234c57e1] tcp_bbr: reset full pipe detection on
>> loss recovery undo
>> Date: Thu Dec 7 12:43:31 2017 -0500
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> $ git cherry-pick 600647d467c6
>> Performing inexact rename detection: 100% (17803152/17803152), done.
>> [detached HEAD 7e866eccd083] tcp_bbr: reset long-term bandwidth
>> sampling on loss recovery undo
>> Date: Thu Dec 7 12:43:32 2017 -0500
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> $ git log --oneline --decorate | head -3
>> 7e866eccd083 (HEAD) tcp_bbr: reset long-term bandwidth sampling on
>> loss recovery undo
>> 0982234c57e1 tcp_bbr: reset full pipe detection on loss recovery undo
>> 79070be7f1ae (linux-stable-rc/linux-4.9.y) Linux 4.9.74-rc1
>>
>> I verified that this compiles without warnings, and boots, and BBR works.
>>
>> Shall I prepare another version of these 2 patches, or do we think
>> this recipe will be sufficient? (Sorry I am not more familiar with the
>> backport-to-stable process.)
>
> That works, those two patches are now queued up for the next stable
> release, thanks!
>
> greg k-h

Great. Thank you, Greg and David!

neal