Re: [Xen-devel] netback: Carrier off / Carrier on again, rinse, repeat

[Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

This has been fixed by "f48da8: xen-netback: fix unlimited guest Rx 
internal queue and carrier flapping", it's already in 3.18, I don't know 
if it is going to be backported to 3.17
Zoli

On 11/12/14 14:42, Christopher S. Aker wrote:
> Xen: 4.4.2-pre (28573:f6f6236af933) + xsa111, xsa112, xsa114
> Dom0: 3.17.4
>
> We recently moved our dom0 from 3.10.x to 3.17.4, in order to avoid a netback 
> host crash that has been plaguing us.  After doing so, the new multi-queue 
> netback stuff constantly on/offs carrier on the vif, spamming the console, and 
> making the bridge device leave forwarding state and then immediately reenter 
> forwarding state.
>
> vif vif-43-0 vif43.0: Carrier off due to lack of guest response on queue 0
> br0: port 44(vif43.0) entered disabled state
> vif vif-43-0 vif43.0: Carrier on again
> br0: port 44(vif43.0) entered forwarding state
> br0: port 44(vif43.0) entered forwarding state
> br0: port 44(vif43.0) entered forwarding state
> vif vif-43-0 vif43.0: Carrier off due to lack of guest response on queue 0
> br0: port 44(vif43.0) entered disabled state
> vif vif-43-0 vif43.0: Carrier on again
> br0: port 44(vif43.0) entered forwarding state
> br0: port 44(vif43.0) entered forwarding state
> br0: port 44(vif43.0) entered forwarding state
> vif vif-113-0 vif113.0: Carrier off due to lack of guest response on queue 0
> br0: port 108(vif113.0) entered disabled state
> vif vif-113-0 vif113.0: Carrier on again
> br0: port 108(vif113.0) entered forwarding state
> br0: port 108(vif113.0) entered forwarding state
> br0: port 108(vif113.0) entered forwarding state
> vif vif-43-0 vif43.0: Carrier off due to lack of guest response on queue 0
> br0: port 44(vif43.0) entered disabled state
> vif vif-43-0 vif43.0: Carrier on again
> br0: port 44(vif43.0) entered forwarding state
> br0: port 44(vif43.0) entered forwarding state
> br0: port 44(vif43.0) entered forwarding state
> vif vif-43-0 vif43.0: Carrier off due to lack of guest response on queue 0
> br0: port 44(vif43.0) entered disabled state
> vif vif-43-0 vif43.0: Carrier on again
> br0: port 44(vif43.0) entered forwarding state
> br0: port 44(vif43.0) entered forwarding state
> br0: port 44(vif43.0) entered forwarding state
>
> (This is in the span of a few minutes, however it is non-stop)
>
> If this is normal expected operation then obviously we can live with the 
> console messages, but - I just wanted to report this in the case it is not 
> expected behavior.
>
> Thanks,
> -Chris
>
>
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