On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 07:46:59AM -0700, Shirley Ma wrote:
> 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?
Possibly GFP_ATOMIC allocations in vring_add_indirect are failing?
Is there a chance you are tight on guest memory for some reason?
with vhost, virtio does currently consume a bit more memory than
with userspace backend.
> 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
