netdev - Re: Linux 4.12+ memory leak on router with i40e NICs

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Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2017 07:11:43 -0700
From:   Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
To:     Pavlos Parissis <pavlos.parissis@...il.com>
Cc:     Paweł Staszewski <pstaszewski@...are.pl>,
        "Anders K. Pedersen | Cohaesio" <akp@...aesio.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org" <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>,
        "alexander.h.duyck@...el.com" <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.12+ memory leak on router with i40e NICs

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:20 AM, Pavlos Parissis
<pavlos.parissis@...il.com> wrote:
> On 15/10/2017 02:58 πμ, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> Hi Pawel,
>>
>> To clarify is that Dave Miller's tree or Linus's that you are talking
>> about? If it is Dave's tree how long ago was it you pulled it since I
>> think the fix was just pushed by Jeff Kirsher a few days ago.
>>
>> The issue should be fixed in the following commit:
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c?id=2b9478ffc550f17c6cd8c69057234e91150f5972
>>
>
>
> Do you know when it is going to be available on net-next and linux-stable repos?
>
> Cheers,
> Pavlos

Hi Pavos,

My guess would be a week or two for net-next since it normally has to
go from the net tree, into Linus's tree, and then back into net-next.
As far as stable, I believe there is some queue that Dave has to
submit the patch into for that. Beyond that I have no idea what the
timelines are like in order for a patch to make it into any given
stable kernel release.

I added Dave to the Cc since I am kind of guessing at the process and timelines.

Hope that helps.

- Alex