Re: kinda headsup..

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org>
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:53:42 -0700
Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote:
>> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>> Julian Elischer wrote:
>>>> At the BSDCAn devsummit we discussed how to proceed with committing 
>>>> Vimage to -current.
>>>>
>>>> the Milestones included something like:
>>>>
>>>> June 8 (today) Headsup....
>>>>
>>>> June 15        commit changes that add macros for vnet
>>>>                (network module) and vinet(inet virtualisation)
>>>>                with macros defined in such a way to make 0 actual
>>>>                differences. provable by md5 etc.
>>>>                Documentat
>>>>                  s/hostname/g//V_hostname/
>>>>                  #define V_hostname hostname
>>>>                2 weeks settle time, next step prepared, tested
>>>>                and reviewed.
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> diffs can be found at:
>>>>  http://www.freebsd.org/~julian/vimage.diff and it are usually
>>>> fairly up to date.
>>>
>>> Did Marko fix the panic I saw back in May?  I wasn't even able to 
>>> boot a vimage kernel yet, let alone begin testing it :)
>>
>> is this the ipv6 panic?
>> I must admit I have not heard..
>> he was looking at it back thne and has committed stuff since then..
>>
>> I use it with IPV4 quite successfully quite often.
>>
>> note that the first commits are pretty much quaranteed to not have 
>> that problem.. as they are effective NOPs
>>
>>
>> I'll get back to you  on it..
> 
> Yes, the panic occurs when one runs a vimage kernel on a CVS world. It's 
> presumably a case of incomplete validation of the input from userland.
> 
> I'd still like someone to validate the initial commits and establish a 
> framework for ongoing testing, because we've seen cases recently where 
> things as simple as structure alignment changes can have >30% 

we have set asside a step to confirm this..
but initial testing has shown no impact.

> performance impact, so if it's not entirely a NOP then there is still 
> potential for trouble.

> 
> Kris
Received on Mon Jun 09 2008 - 16:53:43 UTC

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