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Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.30
From: John Dykstra <john.dykstra1@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 03:25 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> There is also http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/30/398 : Soft-Lockup/Race
> in 
> networking in 2.6.31-rc1+195 (possibly caused by netem)

There is some similarity between this soft lockup and the one reported
in http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg100957.html.  In both, the
process is doing both sends and receives on raw sockets.

  --  John