On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 10:16:35AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 07:02:35PM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > 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... > > So at least the good news is that after 2.5 days, it has flawlessly > forwarded 21 billion connections, 3 TB of TCP payload and processed ~180 > billion interrupts. No single error in dmesg nor in the test. Thus I'm > now quite confident with this kernel's stability. Wow, impressive. Thanks for the testing and letting me know. greg k-h