Hello Michael, On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 08:43 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > At some point my guest had a runaway nash-hotplug process > consuming 100% CPU. Could you please verify this > does not happen to you? What I have found that the start_xmit stopped and restarted too often. There is no vring descriptor available for adding the new buf. The buf release is not able to keep up after vhost patch? I saw lots of "Unexpected full queue" from dmesg. I haven't had time to debug it yet. You might have some idea here? /* This can happen with OOM and indirect buffers. */ if (unlikely(capacity < 0)) { netif_stop_queue(dev); dev_warn(&dev->dev, "Unexpected full queue\n"); if (unlikely(!vi->svq->vq_ops->enable_cb(vi->svq))) { vi->svq->vq_ops->disable_cb(vi->svq); netif_start_queue(dev); goto again; } return NETDEV_TX_BUSY; } Thanks Shirley -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html