netdev - Re: [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes

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Message-ID: <20100719115411.GA22758@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:54:11 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Qianfeng Zhang <frzhang@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	WANG Cong <amwang@...hat.com>, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Subject: Re: [0/8] netpoll/bridge fixes

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 06:53:00PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > Meanwhile, should we just disable netpoll for bridge in 2.6.35 and -stable?
> > We are getting crash reports in virtualization which I suspect are
> > related to this:
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16413
> 
> I think that's probably the best solution, Dave?

I take that back :)

It turns out that 16413 has nothing to do with bridge netpoll
(which was not merged until after 2.6.34) since he's running
2.6.34.

Still, it might be a good idea to disable bridge netpoll in
2.6.35.

Thanks,
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