[Babel-users] [BUG] Route "deadlocks" under load due to non-atomic kernel route updates

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> I have been running this script on four different machines for hours
> now without reproducing your bug on the 4.4 or later kernels. It does
> trigger on a 3.14 kernel. (it helps to do a killall fping6 before
> exiting!)

> It does not seem to be happening on 4.4 or later.

Excellent news.  Dave, could you please send a mail to the netdev people
with your conclusions?

> At another level I still really, really, really wanted atomic updates
> in babel,

Patches gladly accepted.  Or I'll do it at some point, but don't hold your
breath, there's a lot other stuff on my plate.

-- Juliusz