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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: new netfront and occasional receive path lockup

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: new netfront and occasional receive path lockup
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:44:29 +0300
Cc: "Xu, Dongxiao" <dongxiao.xu@xxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>, Gerald Turner <gturner@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:54:27AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>  On 09/14/2010 01:25 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 20:36 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >> On 09/13/2010 09:08 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:01:57AM -0700, Gerald Turner wrote:
> >>>> Then I restarted all domUs with use_smartpoll=0 and haven't had any
> >>>> lockups in 7 hours.
> >>>>
> >>> I think we should default xen/stable-2.6.32.x to use_smartpoll=0 for the 
> >>> time being
> >>> until this is sorted out..
> >> Agreed.
> > Should we also consider adding a netback option to disable it for the
> > system as a whole as well? Or are the issues strictly in-guest only?
> >
> > Perhaps netback should support a xenstore key to allow a toolstack to
> > configure this property per guest?
> 
> It depends on what the problem is.  If there's a basic problem with the
> smartpoll front<->back communication protocol then we'll probably have
> to revert the whole thing and start over.  If the bug is just something
> in the frontend then we can disable it there until resolved.
> 
> Fortunately I haven't pushed netfront smartpoll support upstream yet, so
> the userbase is still fairly limited.  I hope.
> 

There has been quite a few people on ##xen on irc complaining about it..

I think the smartpoll code has ended up in Debian Squeeze 2.6.32-5-xen kernel..
Hopefully they'll pull the "Revert "xen/netfront: default smartpoll to on"" 
soon..

-- Pasi


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