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
next prev parent 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
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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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