[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Unstableness in grant table block drivers
Christopher Clark wrote: Hello Anthony First off, hands up: this was my code and I just didn't get around to sending the mail to the list as I had enough to deal with relocating from the UK to the US last week. The code was, however, tested under load and working fine, and I did consider it to be ready for wider testing in unstable. Hi Christopher,My note was more of a suggestion for the future than a complaint. You guys in Cambridge move very quickly and it's hard for some of us outside to keep up :-) You guys just keep churning out cool stuff. Actually, this seems like it might be a common thread between all of our scenarios. I'm using (and I assume others) a standard dom0 config file that has all of my hardware enabled while I just use the default config file for domU.The machines you can't get to start domUs, and symptom of not finding the root filesystem is exactly what you'd see if your dom0 and domU configs don't match; either both or neither need to be using grant tables for transport. Your other issues will need more investigation, and a reproducable scenario would be extremely helpful indeed. I'll try to confirm this tomorrow with the other people that were experiencing problems. Perhaps I'll run a copy of fsstress too and let you guys know the results. Regards, Anthony Liguori Regards, Christopher On 4/13/05, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Ian Pratt wrote:OK, that's news to us - we haven't seen any problems. It's been tested with dd's and kernel builds, and wasn't expected to be a particularly dangerous change. How you confirmed that disabling the option fixes your problems? Can you give a simple recipe to provoke problems?We've had three different systems lose the ability to start domUs. Disabling VBD grant tables fixed the problem. The best reproducable example we have is default config on a domU from today's xen-unstable snapshot. /dev/console is not accessible and no valid root is found. In my own case, it was working fairly well and then it just stopped working. It would die mid-way through boot. Again, disabling VBD grant-tables fixed the problem. I'm going to look into the problem this evening and see if I can get you guys a more reproducable scenario.It doesn't seem to be destablizing, at least for us. Possibly there's been some feature interaction with later checkins.Possibly.Anyone using the unstable tree should be reading the changelog closely...I agree. I do, but I don't think a lot of people do. I'm not trying to give you guys more work to do :-) Just a quick note to xen-devel would suffice (if you've got an extra second). Thanks Ian, Regards, Anthony LiguoriIan_______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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