On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 05:32 -0500, Gedalya wrote: > On 11/09/2014 05:11 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 15:13 -0500, Gedalya wrote: > >> On 11/08/2014 08:44 AM, Gedalya wrote: > >>>>> Tried to just frankenport xen-netback from 3.18 into 3.16, didn't work > >>>>> very well ;-) > >>>> Did you backport just the above or the full set of changes from 3.18? > >>> I tried to "simplify" (avoid having to edit code myself..) by just > >>> copying the full xen-netback from 3.18 as it is. > >>> I did have to revert "c835a6 net: set name_assign_type in > >>> alloc_netdev()" to get it to compile, but then it gave me a kernel bug > >>> as soon as a xen guest booted up. > >>> (see attached if it matters) > >>> I'll try to apply just those 3 patches and see how it goes. > >> Important: I have no idea what I'm doing!! > > :-D > > > >> So I cherry-picked the following > >> xen-netback: reintroduce guest Rx stall detection > >> xen-netback: fix unlimited guest Rx internal queue and carrier flapping > >> xen-netback: make feature-rx-notify mandatory > >> xen-netback: Don't deschedule NAPI when carrier off > >> xen-netback: Fix vif->disable handling > >> xen-netback: Turn off the carrier if the guest is not able to receive > >> xen-netback: Using a new state bit instead of carrier > >> > >> I'm attaching the two commits for which I had to manually resolve > >> conflicts, and finally a debian quilt patch including all 7 commits for > >> 3.16.7-2 > >> > >> So far this is working, behavior is as I described for 3.18. > >> > >> Perhaps this could be helpful but someone should certainly review it. > > Thanks, I actually ended up backporting a few more patches, effectively > > all of the netback changes since v3.16 since they all looked like useful > > fixes, and it reduced the conflicts. > > > > If you were able to test the kernel from > > http://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/debian/767261/ that would be great > > (I'm struggling a bit to regroove my usual test box with something > > useful). > > > > Ian. > > > > > OK, that works. Got it to stall etc., uptime 6 minutes.. all good so > far. I'll let u know if anything interesting happens.
Thanks, I'll throw those into the package then. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
