Re: still seeing network freezes with rtl8139 nic

Avi Kivity
2008-02-26T14:41:36Z

Avi Kivity wrote:
> david ahern wrote:
>> Almost 7 hours and the uniprocessor case is still chugging along.
>>
>>
>
> How long does it usually take to hang?
>
> How do I go about reproducing this? apachebench (host) against httpd
> (guest) doesn't seem to trigger it.
>

ab (on host) against httpd (on guest) reproduces within a few minutes.

uniprocessor guest: works
smp guest: fails
smp guest with one offlined cpu: works
smp guest with httpd pinned to cpu 0: works

so it's either a guest driver smp problem, or an ioapic problem.

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