APPLIED: [Bionic][PATCH 0/1] nfp: flower: prioritize stats updates

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Thu Mar 15 19:58:12 UTC 2018


On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 03:50:23PM -0400, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752061
> 
> == Bionic Justification ==
> This is a backport request from Netronome for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
> 
> Description: Previously it was possible to interrupt processing stats 
> updates because they were handled in a work queue. Interrupting the stats 
> updates could lead to a situation where we backup the control message queue. 
> This patch moves the stats update processing out of the work queue to be 
> processed as soon as hardware sends a request.
> 
> The following fix for the above has been accepted into upstream for v4.16. 
> 
> == Fix ==
> 01c15e93a78c ("nfp: flower: prioritize stats updates")
> 
> == Test Case ==
> A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter.
> The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.

Applied to bionic/master-next, thanks!




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