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[Xen-users] dom0 serial input overruns

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Subject: [Xen-users] dom0 serial input overruns
From: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:09:19 +0100
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Hi,

I'm running a HA Xen cluster, where the dom0s are crosslinked via a null
modem serial cable for heartbeat redundancy.  This works most of the
time, but the serial connection is very unreliable, dropping characters
all the time, with lot of messages like "ttyS0: 2 input overrun(s)" in
dmesg.  No such problem when running the same kernel on bare metal.  The
link is running at 9600 baud, so the system should easily cope, but it
looks like the serial interrupt isn't serviced timely enough under Xen.
I'm running Xen 4.0.1 now with kernel 2.6.32 (stock Debian squeeze), but
the problem isn't specific to this setup, Xen 3.2 with kernel 2.6.18 had
much the same issue.  Raising dom0's scheduling weight didn't help much
(or at all), pinning all domUs to CPU1-3 and vcpu0 of dom0 to CPU0
actually made the problem worse.

$ cat /proc/interrupts 
            CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3       
   1:          9          0          0          0  xen-pirq-ioapic-edge  i8042
   4:   31712520          0          0          0  xen-pirq-ioapic-edge  serial
[...]

Is there some known solution to this problem?  It feels like overly big
dom0 scheduling latency...  Comments welcome.
-- 
Thanks,
Feri.

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