Ian Campbell <[email protected]> writes: > Bastian, > > I think we should pull the changesets which make smart poll optional > and then disable it by default into the squeeze kernel. What do you > think? > > I presume it is preferred to pull the individual changesets at this > stage rather than rebasing to a newer xen.git? (I can do either if you > like) >
BTW, I opened bug #596635 about this last Sunday, probably prematurely. > On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 19:44 +0100, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:54:27AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> > On 09/14/2010 01:25 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: >> > > On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 20:36 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> > >> On 09/13/2010 09:08 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> > >>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:01:57AM -0700, Gerald Turner wrote: >> > >>>> Then I restarted all domUs with use_smartpoll=0 and haven't >> > >>>> had any lockups in 7 hours. >> > >>>> >> > >>> I think we should default xen/stable-2.6.32.x to >> > >>> use_smartpoll=0 for the time being until this is sorted out.. >> > >> Agreed. >> > > Should we also consider adding a netback option to disable it for >> > > the system as a whole as well? Or are the issues strictly >> > > in-guest only? >> > > >> > > Perhaps netback should support a xenstore key to allow a >> > > toolstack to configure this property per guest? >> > >> > It depends on what the problem is. If there's a basic problem with >> > the smartpoll front<->back communication protocol then we'll >> > probably have to revert the whole thing and start over. If the bug >> > is just something in the frontend then we can disable it there >> > until resolved. >> > >> > Fortunately I haven't pushed netfront smartpoll support upstream >> > yet, so the userbase is still fairly limited. I hope. >> > >> >> There has been quite a few people on ##xen on irc complaining about >> it.. >> >> I think the smartpoll code has ended up in Debian Squeeze >> 2.6.32-5-xen kernel.. Hopefully they'll pull the "Revert >> "xen/netfront: default smartpoll to on"" soon.. >> >> -- Pasi >> -- Gerald Turner Email: [email protected] JID: [email protected] GPG: 0xFA8CD6D5 21D9 B2E8 7FE7 F19E 5F7D 4D0C 3FA0 810F FA8C D6D5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
