Re: [Xen-devel] Network freezing for paravirt linux, 3.0.3

[Andres Lagar Cavilla <andreslc@cs.toronto.edu>]

Patching the tx_add_credit function worked like a charm.
Thanks a lot!

Andres

Keir Fraser wrote:

>On 28/11/06 15:08, "Andres Lagar Cavilla" <andreslc@cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
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>>It thus looks like the culprit is netfront, or possibly a
>>netback/netfront interaction (Q: is netback employed in the qemu-dm
>>emulation path, or packets are simply relayed from the tap to vifX.Y?).
>>I would love to provide more information, but I'm unsure where to get it.
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>What version of netback are you running? The one from the 3.0.3 release is
>known to have a bug which would cause high-bandwidth transfers to stall.
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>The offending function is netback.c:tx_add_credit(). You should be able to
>take the version from xen-unstable and copy it into whatever version of
>netback.c you are using.
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> -- Keir
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