From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1: unpingable box and NULL dereference at tcp_rto_min() Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 13:52:45 -0700 Message-ID: <20070902135245.aed7c7a9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070831215822.26e1432b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070902023618.GA2537@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net To: Alexey Dobriyan Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070902023618.GA2537@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 06:36:19 +0400 Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:58:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc4/2.6.23-rc4-mm1/ > > - dynticks-for-x86_64 has returned > > Good news is that, contary to popular belief, -mm is not horrible piece > of crap and NO_HZ on x86_64 worked here straight away. variable. It at least Works For Me before it goes out. > > The bad news is something knocked off box from the net, then panicked it: Yeah, the net tree has been quite bad lately. Unusually bad - it's usually one of the good ones. It also breaks a lot of the net driver work in several other trees (I dropped git-ixgbe.patch wholesale because of this). But there isn't a lot we can do about that.