From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: rtl8139 stop working under high load Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:24:34 +0300 Message-ID: <4879BBC2.3060007@qumranet.com> References: <48777F62.4070104@lfarkas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Farkas Levente Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:11395 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750989AbYGMIYg (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:24:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48777F62.4070104@lfarkas.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Farkas Levente wrote: > hi, > i'm just switch to the use rtl8139 network emulator in kvm-70 for the > guests, but under high load it's simple stop working. a reboot or even a > service network restart > solve the problem, but imho there should have to be some bug in the > qemu's rtl8139 code. and there is not any kind of error in any log > (neither the host's nor the guest's). > this not happened with e1000. but with e1000 the network sometimes > seems to breathing (sometimes slow down and then speed up again). > do currently which is the preferred network network device in qemu/kvm? kvm-71 contains a fix for ioapic interrupts under load, please test it when it comes out. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function