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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: set priority of STP packets
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:18:40 -0500 (EST)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:22:22 -0800

> Spanning Tree Protocol packets should have always been marked as
> control packets, this causes them to get queued in the high prirority
> FIFO. As Radia Perlman mentioned in her LCA talk, STP dies if bridge
> gets overloaded and can't communicate. This is a long-standing bug back
> to the first versions of Linux bridge.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.