Re: [Xen-devel] RE: Stability report GPLPV 0.11.0.308

[Andreas Kinzler <ml-xen-devel@xxxxxx>]

On 06.09.2011 07:21, James Harper wrote:

> I actually looked back through the changes and there is still a fix 
to come - basically
> xennet allocates new buffers when it needs them, but never frees them 
again so if
> there is a really big burst of traffic it could end up taking all the 
available memory. That
> could cause the problem you are seeing. I'm a bit busy with some 
other things at the
> moment but I hope to have a fix by the end of the week.

I am currently running the torture test on 0.11.0.312 and did not see 
any increase in usage
of kernel memory (uptime is over 7 days now with quite extreme load on 
net/disk).
Anything new about your fix?

Regards Andreas


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