On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 04:55:07PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 03:54:33PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.110 kernel. > > > > All users of the 4.4 kernel series must upgrade. > > > > But be careful, there have been some reports of problems with this > > release during the -rc review cycle. Hopefully all of those issues are > > now resolved. > > > > So please test, as of right now, it should be "bug compatible" with the > > "enterprise" kernel releases with regards to the Meltdown bug and proper > > support on all virtual platforms (meaning there is still a vdso issue > > that might trip up some old binaries, again, please test!) > > > > If anyone has any problems, please let me know. > > FWIW I've just booted one of our LBs on it and am hammering it at full > load with pti enabled and will let it run for the week-end. It takes > 860k irq/s and about 1.7M syscalls/s. For now it works well (but slowly). > Hopefully if there are any rare race conditions left it has a chance to > trigger them. Thanks for the testing, let me know if you see anything. And "slowly", does that mean it is noticable? I have some querys from the virtual networking people that are getting worried about all of this. I told them to go test, but they were having a hard time finding a kernel to test with. Hopefully we hear back from them now that these are out... thanks, greg k-h