WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] igb pciback and e1000e pciback not work.

To: ?????? <xnhp0320@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] igb pciback and e1000e pciback not work.
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 13:47:33 +0300
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivery-date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:50:01 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <AANLkTi=vHyVWx272La92jHnAVy-OT3tyo1LJkSVaH0FS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <AANLkTimAJFm1D6cupLxGo9KbTdxqGEPyDA+CTbJCpmL6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <AANLkTi=vHyVWx272La92jHnAVy-OT3tyo1LJkSVaH0FS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 10:55:35AM +0800, ?????? wrote:
>    I'm using Xen 4.01 and jeremy's pvops kernel, the kernel version is
>    2.6.32.18.
>    At first I want to test the performance of pci passthrough  when it comes
>    to the network card 82571EB
> 
>    I'm using the Jeremy's kernel 2.6.32.18 as DomU kernel too.
> 
>    And I found if the interface is not connected, I mean the network card
>    receives no packet, ( the network card doesn't connect to the switch ),
>    it's fine. when I connect it to a switch , I got a lot of "Detected Tx
>    Unit Hang" in dmesg of the DomU kernel
>    and a kernel oops saying:
> 
>    Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tained 2.6.32.18-xen #4
>    warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x50
> 
>    the ooops image is in the attachment of this post.
> 
>    I've checked the mailing list, some one said it's about the e1000e driver
>    with a wrong
>    config of the EEPROM.
> 
>    So I switch to use the network card 82575EB with igb driver
>    It seems to work well,Â
>    until I find it can't receive any packets in DomU.
>    And I see a lot of packets dropped when I ifconfig these interfaces.
>    Anyone knows how to deal with this ?
>

Hello,

The latest kernel version in xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch is 2.6.32.21.
Dunno if it has any fixes that are relevant to you.

Anyway, did you read: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenPCIpassthrough

-- Pasi


_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>