You say this version.. is there a newer version with this patch already
apply to it?
Thanks
On 12/17/09 20:27 p.m., Herbert Xu wrote:
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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