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Re: [Xen-users] Shared interrupt in 2 domains: cards disabled

To: Arie Kraai <xen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Shared interrupt in 2 domains: cards disabled
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:18:16 -0500
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Arie Kraai wrote:

Xen 2.0-testing gave me a problem when a domain (using a dom0 kernel)
tried to use a soundcard (hidden from dom0):
with the same IRQ as the network-card in dom0:

The card produced sound for 4 seconds, then went mute. Moreover, the
dom0 network-card also stopped operating (only xen-br0 still worked) and
could not be brought back to life, not even after stopping all domains
and xend:
I had to reboot the system...
Is this a bug or should there be no shared interrupts at all between
domains?

The situation is even worse: using a USB device in domU (hidden from
dom0) with the same interrupt as a SATA controller in dom0 corrupted the
SATA-disk in dom0!
I'm seeing something very similiar. I've got USB, Sound, and Ethernet all on a shared IRQ. The devices are only being used in dom0 and if any two out of the three are used rigoriously at the same time (say playing an MP3 and downloading a large file) all of the devices hang.

FWIW, I have a bug entry in bugzilla about it. You may want to take a look at it and add some additional comments.

I didn't experience these problems until the ACPI code was reworked.

http://bugzilla.xensource.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

Please, does anyone have a clue about what's going on with shared
interrupts?

Thanks, Arie Kraai

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