From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nivedita Singhvi Subject: Re: Net grant tables breaking multiple nic domU Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:50:16 -0700 Message-ID: <43273B88.6080508@us.ibm.com> References: <1126643593.30044.11.camel@thinkpad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1126643593.30044.11.camel@thinkpad> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Jerone Young Cc: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Jerone Young wrote: > While working Bugzilla #183 I figured out what was the problem... Net > grant tables...something that is marked as DANGEROUS in the kernel > config...is on by default. When net grant tables is compiled in bringing > up two interfaces in a domU crashes the domU kernel. But when I compile > both Dom0 & DomU without net grant tables I am able to use two > interfaces in domU with no problem. I don't know a lot about net grant > tables but could someone who know more about net grant tables take a > look at this? > > Jerone, Did you not see Jim Dykman's updates and posts on this bug? He's found the root cause, and is putting together a patch, although some of it might be interim because it exposes another resource shortage which will have to be addressed somehow. Expect a patch from him in the next day or two, and see the bugzilla entry (and previous posts on xen-devel) from Jim for the details. thanks, Nivedita