Re: still seeing network freezes with rtl8139 nic

Avi Kivity
2008-03-05T17:14:35Z

david ahern wrote:
> Try adding the noapic option to your guest kernel. I re-ran that test on kvm-62
> and my VM was able to run under load for more than 3-1/2 days (the network never
> locked up; I stopped the test to try other variations).
>
> One side effect of the noapic option is that irq balancing is disabled -- all
> interrupts are delivered via CPU 0. I ran a few tests earlier this week without
> the noapic option (hence with the apic) but with irq balancing disabled and
> still had the lockups. It seems to be something specific to the apic.
>
>

I got good results with apic and e1000. Can you try it?

May be a guest driver bug.

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