[Cake] cake infinite loop(?) with hfsc on one-armed router

Pete Heist pete at heistp.net
Sat Jan 5 17:41:43 EST 2019


> On Jan 5, 2019, at 11:27 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
> 
> Pete Heist <pete at heistp.net> writes:
> 
>>> On Jan 5, 2019, at 9:10 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Well, it's the same WARN_ON(), and if that patch had been applied,
>>> debugging our issue would have been a lot harder, I think.
>> 
>> Yikes, this is what I mean. I’d rather suffer the warning than be
>> troubleshooting flaky behavior. That patch is applied in the latest
>> kernel, so hopefully it’s the right thing.
> 
> Well, if it causes false positives, getting rid of it is probably worth
> it just to avoid spurious bug reports :)

If it helps finds bugs, I’d rather know about it.

But, a warning once in a while might have been better than a repeated one that sometimes makes a hard reboot necessary, causing need for a manual, offline fsck in order to boot again. Just sayin’… ;)



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