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From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@Voltaire.com>
Subject: Re: user space virtio-net exits with "truncating packet" error
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 15:25:35 +0300
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Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> That sounds like a bug in qemu's mergeable receive buffers
> implementation - the host is running out of buffers for the packet, even
> though it supposedly has already checked that there is enough buffers
> available on the ring.
> 
> Hmm, I think I see the bug - does the patch below work? Please try
> several mtu values around the 9k mark to be sure

No, it doesn't help, same crash.

Or.