Thanks a lot Ben. It was fixed in glibc 2.28. Shall I send a patch to add the comment in the code? I think it's a good idea so that we can remove the workaround eventually. Not sure about sending a patch for just a comment though :)
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 10:40 PM Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 05:39:07PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 02:07:45PM +0200, Daniel Alvarez wrote: > > > This patch in glibc [0] is fixing a bug where we may be getting > > > inconsistent dumps from the kernel when listing interfaces due to > > > a race condition. > > > > > > This could happen if we try to retrieve them while interfaces are > > > being added/removed from the system at the same time. > > > For systems running against old glibc versions, this patch is retrying > > > the operation up to 3 times and then proceeding by logging a > > > warning. > > > > > > Note that 3 times should be enough to not delay the operation much > > > and since it's unlikely that we hit the race condition 3 times in > > > a row. Still, if this happened, this patch is not changing the > > > current behavior. > > > > > > [0] > https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=c1f86a33ca32e26a9d6e29fc961e5ecb5e2e5eb4 > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Alvarez <[email protected]> > > > Co-authored-by: Jiri Benc <[email protected]> > > > > Thanks for the patch. > > > > As a co-author, Jiri also needs to sign off. > > > > Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> > > I see that Jiri signed off earlier and it just didn't get propagated. > > Thanks, I applied this to master and branch-2.10. > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
