Re: [PATCH v2] Revert "sunvdc: Do not spin in an infinite loop when vio_ldc_send() returns EAGAIN"

From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz

Date: Mon Oct 06 2025 - 09:03:04 EST


On Mon, 2025-10-06 at 15:00 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> The problem is that giving up can lead to filesystem corruption which
> is problem that was never observed before the change from what I know.
>
> We have deployed a kernel with the change reverted on several LDOMs that
> are seeing heavy use such as cfarm202.cfarm.net and we have seen any system
> lock ups or similar.

We have not* seen any lock ups, so far with the patch reverted. Sorry.

>
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