> > This may be my fault, as I made some changes recently that assumed that
> > the mbuf allocator grabbed giant when needed. I'll check the code path
> > you've mentioned to see if it grabs giant now, but I suspect that I just
> > need to move the giant grabbing back where it was before.
> This doesn't seem to be a reproduceable problem for me, FWIW, (presumably
> a property of bucket sizes, etc) so you have all the information I have
> :-).
You'd have to be quite unlucky to trigger it (calling sendit at a
time when a per-cpu mbuf pool was empty). I have a vague feeling
that my sendit change isn't the only place that does this.
> If possible, we should get this fix in for 5.1?
Yep - from what Bosko says, my change shouldn't have been safe.
I'll produce a patch and run it by him, and then talk to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David.
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