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Re: [Xen-devel] Network drop to domU (netfront: rx->offset: 0, size: 429

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Network drop to domU (netfront: rx->offset: 0, size: 4294967295)
From: Mickael Marchand <mikmak@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:55:51 +0200
Cc: "PCextreme B.V. - Wido den Hollander" <wido@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 05:43:59AM -0700, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 20/05/2009 03:52, "PCextreme B.V. - Wido den Hollander"
> <wido@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I took the kernel source and started looking where the netfront messages
> > was being printed and it seemed some kind of memory allocation issue? I
> > have found some old messages with patches but those did not apply to my
> > current source.
> 
> The issue is that dom0 is trying to copy data to a domU-provided buffer, but
> the buffer details appear bogus. Netback returns a -1 error to netfront,
> which then prints out its error message. It's not immediately obvious
> whether the bug is in netfront or netback. If it's an issue that crops up
> with many guests then I suppose it's more likely a netback issue, which is a
> pain. Do domUs lose their connection at the same time, or is it random
> individual domUs losing their connection from time to time?

for the record I have the same error messages in domU when migrating
(live) domUs between 2 servers, it does not always occurs but sometimes.
I have much much less domUs on the same kind of servers (10-15 domUs)

Cheers,
Mik

> 
>  -- Keir
> 
> > Since this is a running production system i can schedule a reboot for a
> > new kernel, but this takes some time.
> 
> 
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