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

To: Steven Hand <Steven.Hand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Badness in softirq.c / no modules loaded / related tonetwork interface
From: Steven Hand <Steven.Hand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 00:45:02 +0100
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>> 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.

I've checked in an upstream fix and pushed to bkbits - can you 
please check that this solves your problem even with CONFIG_HIGHMEM? 

cheers,

S.

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