On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 09:53:53AM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 09:13:14 +0100
> Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 07.02.20 08:58, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 08:47:14AM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> > >> Also adding Cornelia.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 06.02.20 23:17, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > >>> On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 04:12:21PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On 06.02.20 15:22, eperezma@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >>>>> Hi Christian.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Could you try this patch on top of ("38ced0208491 vhost: use batched version by default")?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> It will not solve your first random crash but it should help with the lost of network connectivity.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Please let me know how does it goes.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> 38ced0208491 + this seem to be ok.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Not sure if you can make out anything of this (and the previous git bisect log)
> > >>>
> > >>> Yes it does - that this is just bad split-up of patches, and there's
> > >>> still a real bug that caused worse crashes :)
> > >>>
> > >>> So I just pushed batch-v4.
> > >>> I expect that will fail, and bisect to give us
> > >>> vhost: batching fetches
> > >>> Can you try that please?
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> yes.
> > >>
> > >> eccb852f1fe6bede630e2e4f1a121a81e34354ab is the first bad commit
> > >> commit eccb852f1fe6bede630e2e4f1a121a81e34354ab
> > >> Author: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Date: Mon Oct 7 06:11:18 2019 -0400
> > >>
> > >> vhost: batching fetches
> > >>
> > >> With this patch applied, new and old code perform identically.
> > >>
> > >> Lots of extra optimizations are now possible, e.g.
> > >> we can fetch multiple heads with copy_from/to_user now.
> > >> We can get rid of maintaining the log array. Etc etc.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>
> > >> drivers/vhost/test.c | 2 +-
> > >> drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> > >> drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 4 +++-
> > >> 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > And the symptom is still the same - random crashes
> > > after a bit of traffic, right?
> >
> > random guest crashes after a reboot of the guests. As if vhost would still
> > write into now stale buffers.
> >
>
> I'm late to the party; but where is that commit located? Or has it been
> dropped again already?
my vhost tree. Tag batch-v4.
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