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Re: [Xen-users] XEN - Broadcom issue: survey



Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 03:17:07PM +0000, Steven Smith wrote:
this driver is the one relased by DELL on Nov. 11, and I have packet drop. The same with driver 1.5.1c from broadcom

The strange thing is that TX-DRP is 0 until I start a domain. Since I start an HVM, TX-DRP for its vif start incresing.

If I start an PV machine, it drop only 20 packets and then stop. No more TX-DRP at all...
Yes, that's normal and expected behaviour.  If you try and send a
packet over a PV network interface to a domain which hasn't loaded the
PV network driver, the packet will be dropped and the TX-DRP statistic
will be incremented.  PV domains will therefore see a small number of
packets dropped at boot time, while HVM domains will see ongoing
packet drop for as long as the domain remains alive.  For an HVM
domain, you probably want to look at the tap device rather than the
vif.


Steps to go through to debug:

1. Make sure networking is OK in the host, without running xen at all
(just running the normal non-xen kernel).

2. Make sure networking is OK on dom0, when running xen-kernel and NO domU
running.
3. Make sure networking is OK on paravirt domU.

4. Make sure networking is OK on HVM domU, make sure you're running paravirt drivers on HVM domU (this is important!!). Without PV drivers
   performance of HVM domU will be sucky and you WILL get packet drops.

Now, with those tests done, you should be able to isolate the problem quite
easily.. and see if it's NIC/driver or Xen or domU driver related.

-- Pasi

0. RTFM....I think that the user has raised an error and will be terminated (MySelf :))

thank you for help and for pointing this out (you and Steven), I'll investigate further for my "RDP intermittent session" problem

ivan




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