On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 17:14 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 14:54 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 10:26 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
You missed:
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
index
Justification:
Impact: Under heavy network I/O load virtio-net driver crashes making VM guest
unusable.
Testcases:
1) Sergey Svishchev reports that servers that run java webapps with high java
heap usage (especially when heap size is close to physical memory size) helps
trigger one of
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:59:25 am Ken Stailey wrote:
Justification:
Impact: Under heavy network I/O load virtio-net driver crashes making VM
guest unusable.
Hmm, this went badly wrong. I acked this patch, and it was mailed to
netdev six months ago.
Bruce's patch used spaces instead of tabs,
From: Bruce Rogers brog...@novell.com
Under harsh testing conditions, including low memory, the guest would
stop receiving packets. With this patch applied we no longer see any
problems in the driver while performing these tests for extended periods
of time.
Make sure napi is scheduled
On 2/9/2011 at 06:31 PM, Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:59:25 am Ken Stailey wrote:
Justification:
Impact: Under heavy network I/O load virtio-net driver crashes making VM
guest unusable.
Hmm, this went badly wrong. I acked this patch, and it was
