* Tom Lendacky (tahm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Wednesday 13 January 2010 03:52:28 pm Chris Wright wrote: > > (Mark cc'd, sound familiar?) > > > > * Tom Lendacky (tahm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > On Sunday 10 January 2010 06:38:54 am Avi Kivity wrote: > > > > On 01/10/2010 02:35 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 02:30:12PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > > >> This isn't in 2.6.27.y. Herbert, can you send it there? > > > > > > > > > > It appears that now that TX is fixed we have a similar problem > > > > > with RX. Once I figure that one out I'll send them together. > > > > > > I've been experiencing the network shutdown issue also. I've been > > > running netperf tests across 10GbE adapters with Qemu 0.12.1.2, RHEL5.4 > > > guests and 2.6.32 kernel (from kvm.git) guests. I instrumented Qemu to > > > print out some network statistics. It appears that at some point in the > > > netperf test the receiving guest ends up having the 10GbE device > > > "receive_disabled" variable in its VLANClientState structure stuck at 1. > > > From looking at the code it appears that the virtio-net driver in the > > > guest should cause qemu_flush_queued_packets in net.c to eventually run > > > and clear the "receive_disabled" variable but it's not happening. I > > > don't seem to have these issues when I have a lot of debug settings > > > active in the guest kernel which results in very low/poor network > > > performance - maybe some kind of race condition? > > Ok, here's an update. After realizing that none of the ethtool offload options > were enabled in my guest, I found that I needed to be using the -netdev option > on the qemu command line. Once I did that, some ethtool offload options were > enabled and the deadlock did not appear when I did networking between guests > on different machines. However, the deadlock did appear when I did networking > between guests on the same machine. What does your full command line look like? And when the networking stops does your same receive_disabled hack make things work? thanks, -chris -- 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
