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Re: [Xen-devel] [PV] PCI passthrough and interrupt sharing

To: Thomas Friebel <thomas.friebel@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PV] PCI passthrough and interrupt sharing
From: Chris <hap10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 14:42:47 -0400
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Thomas Friebel wrote:
> When the guest NIC's IRQ is not shared with another device, everything
> works fine. When both NICs share the same IRQ, sooner or later host and
> guest networking both hang.

It's not an issue that I've previously encountered, but I'd like to try
to reproduce and fix it.  Can you describe the steps you took to get the
system into a state where host and guest networking will eventually hang.

-Chris

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