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Re: [Xen-users] Badness in softirq.c / no modules loaded / related tonet

To: Andy Smith <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Badness in softirq.c / no modules loaded / related tonetwork interface
From: Steven Hand <Steven.Hand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 19:45:49 +0100
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> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:35:28AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 02:36:01AM +0100, Steven Hand wrote:
> > > In the meantime you could try to see if you can reproduce w/out 
> > > CONFIG_HIGHMEM...
> > 
> > I will give that a go at some point, thank you.
> 
> After removing the CONFIG_HIGHMEM option I can no longer reproduce
> this.

Excellent. 

> Hopefully I won't need to give a guest more than 600 or so MB of RAM
> until this is fixed. :)

Just an update: this turns out to be a bug in linux rather than one
in Xen/XenLinux, and so we've reported it upstream. Hopefully it'll 
get fixed in a forthcoming version -- the only risk is that it's 
hard to trigger on non-Xen boxes (requires fragmented skb's being
received) so may not be top priority for the mainstream guys. 

We'll roll in any fix as soon as it's available.

cheers,

S.

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