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Re: [Xen-devel] network hang trigger

To: James Harper <JamesH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] network hang trigger
From: Peri Hankey <mpah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:38:50 +0100
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James

I can confirm that your problem occurs in xen-2.0-20040914. In this example a4.local is the xen0 machine (2.6.8.1-xen0), a30 is one of several xenU guests on a4 (all 2.6.8.1-xenU). First a simple ping, which works OK. Then your special poison ping: nasty pause, and possibly useful messages.

   [administrator@a30 administrator]$ ping a4.local
   PING a4.local (192.168.0.4) 56(84) bytes of data.
   64 bytes from a4.local (192.168.0.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=5.72 ms
   64 bytes from a4.local (192.168.0.4): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.150 ms

   --- a4.local ping statistics ---
   2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1010ms
   rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.150/2.937/5.724/2.787 ms
   [administrator@a30 administrator]$ ping -s 1473 a4.local
   PING a4.local (192.168.0.4) 1473(1501) bytes of data.

   ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
   ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
   ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
   ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
   ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
   ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
   ping: sendmsg: No buffer space available
    From 192.168.0.4 icmp_seq=1 Frag reassembly time exceeded
   1481 bytes from 192.168.0.4: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=28980 ms
   1481 bytes from 192.168.0.4: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=27980 ms
   1481 bytes from a4.local (192.168.0.4): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=26980 ms

   --- a4.local ping statistics ---
   11 packets transmitted, 3 received, +1 errors, 72% packet loss, time
   29287ms
   rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 26980.569/27980.589/28980.612/816.525 ms, pipe 11

I hope that helps.

Peri

James Harper wrote:

I have found that simply doing a ping with packetsize > 1500 (maybe
mtu???) causes the network to hang for a short time. This is from xenU
and xen0 on the same machine.

Can someone else _please_ test this? I am able to make the network hang
by saying from domU:
ping -s 1473 <dom0 ip>
(1473 + 28 byte header = 1501 byte packet)

I'll do more testing tomorrow.

thanks

James


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