[Group.of.nepali.translators] [Bug 1673564] Re: ThunderX: soft lockup on 4.8+ kernels when running qemu-efi with vhost=on

Backporting to the Xenial (Ubntu 16.04) kernel isn't feasible. 16.04 users are requested to use the hwe-z kernel as noted in the following Wiki page : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Servers/Cavium/ThunderXCRB1S ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: Confirmed => Fix

[Group.of.nepali.translators] [Bug 1673564] Re: ThunderX: soft lockup on 4.8+ kernels when running qemu-efi with vhost=on

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.10.0-33.37 --- linux (4.10.0-33.37) zesty; urgency=low * linux: 4.10.0-33.37 -proposed tracker (LP: #1709303) * CVE-2017-1000112 - Revert "udp: consistently apply ufo or fragmentation" - udp: consistently apply ufo or

[Group.of.nepali.translators] [Bug 1673564] Re: ThunderX: soft lockup on 4.8+ kernels when running qemu-efi with vhost=on

Note that, while this symptom is seemingly only reproducible with >= 4.10 (hwe-y), there is another symptom of this problem that is reproducible with 4.4 (hwe-x). That symptom is that VMs will hang during teardown - easily reproducible using a parallel VM start/stop test. I'll therefore mark this