Re: stress test for parallel workers

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, Mark Wong <mark@2ndquadrant.com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2019-10-13T13:31:54Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Hi,

On 2019-10-13 13:44:59 +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 1:06 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > I don't think any further proof is required that this is
> > a kernel bug.  Where would be a good place to file it?
> 
> linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org might be the right place.
> 
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev

Probably requires reproducing on a pretty recent kernel first, to have a
decent chance of being investigated...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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