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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: "Berck E. Nash" <flyboy@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug #14925] sky2 panic under load
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:50:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201001112150.17166.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100111203128.GA3139@del.dom.local>

On Monday 11 January 2010, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 08:32:24PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday 11 January 2010, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 05:36:46PM -0700, Berck E. Nash wrote:
> > > > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> > > > > of recent regressions.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> > > > > from 2.6.32.  Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know
> > > > > (either way).
> > > 
> > > BTW, I don't know why Berck didn't experience such a panic before
> > > 2.6.32, but seems not a regression to me. There might be new/more sky2
> > > TX timeouts which trigger this panic and would make a real regression.
> > 
> > Even if the code has always been broken, but it's only become visible after
> > 2.6.32, that still counts as a regression IMO, because now the users are
> > affected who weren't before.
> 
> Right, but:
> 1) someone with a similar but older problem might be mislead a fix is
>    not for them;

Not if the fix changelog mentions the older kernels explicitly.

> 2) someone with exactly this one problem (i.e. Berck ;-) might be
>    mislead "no oops" is enough, while their linux might be still worse
>    than before. (So I intended Berck to re-consider or even re-check
>    this problem wrt. 2.6.31, and maybe even reporting another
>    regression.)

Yes, rechecking the problem with 2.6.31 would be useful.

Rafael

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-11 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-10 22:27 2.6.33-rc3-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.32 Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-10 22:32 ` [Bug #14925] sky2 panic under load Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-11  0:36   ` Berck E. Nash
2010-01-11 13:26     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-11 19:32       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-01-11 20:31         ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-11 20:50           ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2010-01-11 21:02           ` Berck E. Nash
2010-01-11 21:47             ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-11 14:03     ` Mike McCormack
2010-01-11 16:45       ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-11 22:07         ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12  0:14           ` David Miller
2010-01-12  7:50             ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12  8:08               ` David Miller
2010-01-12  8:56                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12  9:42                   ` David Miller
2010-01-12 10:31                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12 10:56                     ` David Miller
2010-01-12 11:04                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12 15:39                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 16:15                       ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 16:32                         ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-12 17:02                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 18:04                         ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12 18:13                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 18:24                             ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12 18:49                               ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning (v2) Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 19:16                                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-12 19:23                                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 19:50                                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-13  1:23                                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-12 19:34                                 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-12 18:35                         ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning Michael Breuer
2010-01-12 18:42                           ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-12 20:31                             ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-13  4:10                               ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning (v3) Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-13  4:31                                 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-13  7:35                                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-13 16:04                                 ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-14  3:41                                   ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning (v4) Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-14 10:14                                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-14 11:16                                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-14 11:20                                         ` David Miller
2010-01-14 11:26                                           ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-14 13:19                                             ` Mike McCormack
2010-01-14 15:43                                               ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-14 16:46                                               ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-14 17:51                                               ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-14 17:52                                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-14 23:51                                         ` Michael Breuer
2010-01-16 18:35                                           ` sky2 DHCPOFFER packet loss under load (Was Re: [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning (v4)) Michael Breuer
2010-01-14 15:46                                     ` [PATCH] sky2: safer transmit ring cleaning (v4) Michael Breuer
2010-01-11 22:31         ` [Bug #14925] sky2 panic under load Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-11 16:00 ` 2.6.33-rc3-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.32 Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-01-11 21:47 ` Nick Bowler
2010-01-11 22:10   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
     [not found] ` <omZ8aBZReyD.A.rz.COlSLB@chimera>
2010-01-28 23:18   ` [PATCH net-2.6] cdc_ether: Partially revert "usbnet: Set link down initially ..." Ben Hutchings
2010-01-29  5:37     ` David Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-12-29 15:05 2.6.33-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.32 Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-12-29 15:10 ` [Bug #14925] sky2 panic under load Rafael J. Wysocki

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