[ovs-discuss] crash when restart openvswitch with huge vxlan traffic running

[Lorenzo Bianconi]

>
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 10:03:01AM -0800, Gregory Rose wrote:
> >
> > On 12/27/2018 1:38 PM, Gregory Rose wrote:
> > >
> > >On 12/27/2018 11:40 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > >>Greg, this is a kernel issue.  If you have the time, will you take a
> > >>look at it sometime?
> > >
> > >Yep, will do.
> > >
> > >- Greg
> >
> > I looked into this and there is not much for us to do wrt our kernel
> > datapath.  It is a kernel GRO fix and if it
> > is not in the kernel you're using then you'll have to talk to your vendor
> > about getting the fix into their next
> > distribution kernel package upgrade or else roll (i.e. custom build) your
> > own kernel.
> >
> > I checked all the recent 3.10.x kernel sources using the lexer at
> > access.redhat.com and did not find any
> > of them that carried Lorenzo's fix (commit 8e1da73acded on Dave Miller's
> > current net tree) all the way
> > up to 3.10.0-957.el7.  That is RHEL 7.6 and is the latest so it looks like
> > RHEL 7 is stuck with the bug.
>
> Does it make sense to point out the issue to someone appropriate at Red
> Hat so that they can consider applying the fix?

I have already ported the upstream fix to rhel kernel, so I guess it
will be part of next release

Regards,
Lorenzo

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