Re: [kvm-ppc-devel] virtio network traffic issues

[Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 14:45 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> 
> => from one not yet defined point our guest seems to receive
> absolutely nothing
> => when the guest is hanging it sends nfs requests which are seen
> externally, but it does not seem to get the respones
> => the arp requests for the guest are repeated - maybe we can add some
> very verbose debug in the guest virtio code and activate it when we
> see that it is already hanging
> => ideas:
>   - maybe some buffer/memory runs out and so incoming packets won't be
> received anymore 
>   - we break something in virtio / incoming interrupts (or maybe a
> lock) and from that point no receive is possible
> 
Could we be missing interrupts? Can you add a guest kernel timer that
calls virtio_poll() regularly?
> 
-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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