Re: [Re: [2.2.13aa6 (bugfix release II) ]]

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Mon, 10 Jan 2000 19:53:05 +0100 (CET)


On 10 Jan 2000, ursus wrote:

>as well as the one below. However, can you upload
>the below patch to the ftp.*.kernel.org mirrors also,

ok, I put it here:

ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.2/2.2.14/delack-assert-1.gz

>at least in UniProcessor case. Going to try using SMP
>kernel again after I'm sure these patches do the job.

Fine.

BTW, assuming TCP does its locking right (either doing lock_sock or
running in atomic bh context) SMP/UP shouldn't matter. And if TCP is
missing a lock_sock a race can trigger also in UP. So hopefully if we get
it fixed on UP we should be fine on SMP too later.

Andrea

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