Re: [Xen-devel] compound skb frag pages appearing in start_xmit

On 19.11.2012 16:43, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:

Thursday, November 15, 2012, 3:31:42 AM, you wrote:

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On 2012-10-11 18:14, Ian Campbell wrote:

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On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 11:05 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:

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On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 12:00 +0200, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:

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Probably due to the BUG_ON from the patch below, i changed it into a WARN_ON.
And i seem to hit it, but only in one of the guests at the moment and it triggers quite irregularly.

xennet_make_frags() is able to split the skb->head in multiple page-size
chunks.

It should do the same for fragments

Right, I just want to be reproduce the issue so I can know I've fixed it
properly ;-)

Hi Ian,

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I can reproduce this BUG_ON when running netperf/netserver test between 
two domus running on the same dom0. The domu and dom0 all use v3.7-rc1.

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When I tried to rebase my persistent grant netfront/netback patch on 
latest kernel, netperf/netserver test never succeeded. I did some test 
to find out that v3.6-rc7 works fine, but v3.7-rc1, v3.7-rc2 and 
v3.7-rc4 does not succeed in netperf/netserver test. So I keep my 
persistent grant patch only based on v3.4-rc3 now.

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Konrad thought about commit 6a8ed462f16b8455eec5ae00eb6014159a6721f0 in 
v3.7-rc1, and suggested me to test your debug patch in netfront. This 
BUG_ON happens soon after running the netperf/netserver test case.

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Thanks
Annie

Is there any progression with this bug (rc6 is out the door, so the release of 3.7-final seems to be eminent and this bug completely cripples any networking with guests) ?

+1 on that. I was testing yesterday with a PVM domU running 3.7-rc5 on Xen 4.2
(but also reported from EC2 running Xen 3.4.3) c with one VCPU. I actually can
trigger it by just ssh'ing into the domU (from another machine) and then run
"find /". Output starts to stutter and then stops completely. When this happens
a new connection still can be made and as long as only shorter output is
generated the ssh connection is ok. From a dump taken it looks like user-space
is waiting in some select call (without any warnon I rather won't see the tx path).

-Stefan