netdev - Re: [PATCH 3.10.y 0/2] ipv6: avoid soft lockups in fib6_run

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Date:	Thu, 08 Oct 2015 23:04:33 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.10.y 0/2] ipv6: avoid soft lockups in fib6_run_gc()

On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 13:40 +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> Two patches from 3.11 which are missing in 3.10.y
> 
> I've just seen livelock in 3.10.69+ where all cpus are stuck in
> fib6_run_gc()
[...]

These also looked applicable to 3.2, so I've queued them up too.

Ben.


-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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