Re: RE: Stability report GPLPV 0.11.0.308

[Andreas Kinzler <ml-xen-devel@hfp.de>]

Hello James,

>> Actually one other thing you could try is simply using the Windows
>> 2003 version of the drivers. That uses ndis5 and scsiport instead
>> of ndis6 and storport. If that worked we could try running with
>> ndis5 + storport and see if that works okay. As long as they are
>> from the same patchlevel it shouldn't matter if you use one
>> compiled for windows 2008 and one for windows 2003 (it's possible
>> that it might matter but I can't think of anything).
> I now compiled 0.11.0.312 with scsiport and ndis5 (and patched the
> .inf file, deleted the [XenGplPv.NT$ARCH$.6.0] section). Test is now
> running.

Crashed after 1-2 days, but actually I found that ndis5 of 0.11.0.213
has major differences from ndis5 of 0.11.0.312 so I am not sure what
that means?

The whole reason I am doing all the testing is because the net
performance of 0.11.0.213 is not good enough and 0.11.0.312 has near
native performance on gigabit links - but even the ndis5 driver of
0.11.0.312 has very good performance so it does not seem to be an NDIS 6
improvement.

Any news on your side?

Regards Andreas