ACK: [SRU][Artful][PATCH 0/2] Fixes for LP:1748408

[Stefan Bader]

On 09.03.2018 09:12, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1748408
> 
> == SRU Justification ==
> The bug reporter was seeing an OOM on multiple servers after upgrading from 
> previous 4.10 series HWE kernels to the new 4.13 HWE series. With the new 
> kernel, free memory is continously decreasing at a high rate and the servers 
> start swapping and finally OOMing services within days. With the 4.10 kernel, 
> decrease of free memory is slower and stabilizes after a while.
> 
> It was found that upstream commits 2b9478ffc550 and 62b4c6694dfd resolve
> this issue.
> 
> == Fixes ==
> 2b9478ffc550("i40e: Fix memory leak related filter programming status")
> 62b4c6694dfd("i40e: Add programming descriptors to cleaned_count")
> 
> == Regression Potential ==
> Low.  Limited to i40e and fix existing regression.
> 
> == Test Case ==
> A test kernel was built with these patches and tested by the original bug reporter.
> The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.
> 
> Alexander Duyck (2):
>   i40e: Fix memory leak related filter programming status
>   i40e: Add programming descriptors to cleaned_count
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> 
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>


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