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From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
To: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kvm-ppc-devel] virtio network traffic issues
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:52:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1206453127.1022.1.camel@basalt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47E9020B.3080705@linux.vnet.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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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-25 13:45 [kvm-ppc-devel] virtio network traffic issues Christian Ehrhardt
2008-03-25 13:52 ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]
2008-03-26 16:07   ` Christian Ehrhardt
2008-03-26 17:03     ` Dor Laor
2008-03-26 16:06 ` Christian Ehrhardt

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