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Re: [Xen-devel] xen-netfront: txqueues in a frozen state, no packets in the softqueue



maybe i replied too quickly and impulsively.

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:15, Alessandro Salvatori <sandr8@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> we are using PV networking (and disk for what matters).

we are using PV networking (and disk for what matters), *on HVM* (PV/HVM).

thanks!
-Alessandro-
 Here i am, A young man,
 A crashing computer program,
 Here is a pen, write out my name...

(from: The Servant - Orchestra)



On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:15, Alessandro Salvatori <sandr8@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> we are using PV networking (and disk for what matters).
>
> thanks!
> -Alessandro-
>  Here i am, A young man,
>  A crashing computer program,
>  Here is a pen, write out my name...
>
> (from: The Servant - Orchestra)
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:44, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
>> XenServer had an issue which looked a little like this.
>>
>> The fix was
>> http://xenbits.xensource.com/hg/xen-unstable.hg/rev/02b92d035f64 , but
>> if you are using PV guests then this is certainly not the same issue.
>>
>> ~Andrew
>>
>> On 17/02/12 11:41, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>> Forwarding this email to xen-devel with a proper subject.
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> Stefano,
>>>
>>>    after a few days running traffic, we are seeing that one of the
>>> linux netdevice txqueues has gone into a frozen state and any packet
>>> that you give from there onwards is always queued to a softqueue and
>>> is never put into the xen-netfront txqueue...
>>>
>>> it also looks like xen-netfront is not registering a timeout callback
>>> and this may lead to a crash if the callback ever gets invoked.
>>>
>>> do you happen to know if this has been seen before and if there was a
>>> fix for it?
>>>
>>> we are currently running with linux-3.0.9.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>> -Alessandro-
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Andrew Cooper - Dom0 Kernel Engineer, Citrix XenServer
>> T: +44 (0)1223 225 900, http://www.citrix.com
>>

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