24/04/2018 19:25, Burakov, Anatoly: > On 24-Apr-18 5:32 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:54:21 +0100 > > Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com> wrote: > > > >> One of the ways to work around this was using OFD locks, > >> but they are only supported on kernels 3.15+, > > > > Maybe time to move to next LTS kernel (3.16)? > > > > I'm all for it, but it's not my call to make :(
I am in favor of upgrading kernel requirements. The discussion already started few months ago: https://dpdk.org/patch/34778 We just need to consider how to support the latest versions of distributions Debian, Ubuntu, SLES and RHEL.