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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen pv_ops dom0 2.6.32.13 issues

To: greno@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen pv_ops dom0 2.6.32.13 issues
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:37:36 -0700
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On 06/09/2010 04:27 PM, greno@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> blkbackd

Using phy: in your config file?  That really isn't recommended because
it has poor integrity; the writes are buffered in dom0 so writes can be
reordered or lost on crash, and the guest filesystem can't maintain any
of its own integrity guarantees.

tap:aio: is more resilient, since the writes go directly to the device
without buffering.

That doesn't directly relate to your lockup issues, but it should
prevent filesystem corruption when they happen.

    J



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> Jun 9, 2010 07:13:23 PM, jeremy@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>     On 06/09/2010 04:05 PM, greno@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>     > Jeremy,
>     > The soft lockups seemed to be occurring in different systems. And I
>     > could never make sense out of what was triggering them. I have not
>     > mounted any file systems with "nobarriers" in guests. The guests are
>     > all a single /dev/xvda. The underlying physical hardware is LVM over
>     > RAID-1 arrays. I'm attaching dmesg, kern.log, and messages in case
>     > these might be useful.
>
>     Using what storage backend? blkback? blktap2?
>
>     J
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