On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:22:53 pm Avi Kivity wrote: > On 08/11/2009 09:32 AM, Pierre Ossman wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:59:52 +0900 > > Minchan Kim<[email protected]> wrote: > > Any ideas here? Is the virtio net driver very GFP_ATOMIC happy so it > > drains all those pages? And why is this triggered by a kernel upgrade > > in the host? > > > > Avi? > > Rusty?
It's kind of the nature of networking devices :( I'd say your host now offers GSO features, so the guest allocates big packets. > > I doesn't get out of it though, or at least the virtio net driver > > wedges itself. There's a fixme to retry when this happens, but this is the first report I've received. I'll check it out. Thanks, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
