On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:15:46PM -0500, rek2 wrote:
>
> I been told that today the network when down again and one of the guys
> here had to log using the console and restart it for that particular
> guests..
>
> on the guest:
> uname -a
> Linux XXXX 2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 18:39:34 EDT
> 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Next time it goes down I will try to run a sniffer and try both sides.
OK I'm fairly sure this version has a buggy virtio-net. Does
this patch (if it applies :) help?
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 9eec5a5..74b3854 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -521,8 +521,10 @@ static void xmit_tasklet(unsigned long data)
vi->svq->vq_ops->kick(vi->svq);
vi->last_xmit_skb = NULL;
}
- if (vi->free_in_tasklet)
+ if (vi->free_in_tasklet) {
free_old_xmit_skbs(vi);
+ netif_wake_queue(vi->dev);
+ }
netif_tx_unlock_bh(vi->dev);
}
Cheers,
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