Re: KVM-74 and network timeout?

2008-09-18 Thread Felix Leimbach

Sean Mahrt wrote:

I’ve noticed the guest with a lot of Disk I/O
(commercial detection) after a while has a lot of NFS timeouts….  Virtio
or E1000 give me the same result.


I noticed exactly the same problem after moving from kvm-64 on a
2.6.25.3 host to kvm-74 on a 2.6.26.3 host.

Adding to your observations:
- CIFS shares are affected as well: Under heavy traffic I get timeouts
from the server, see [1]
- ne2k_pci and rtl8139 guests seem to be affected as well


Now the real bad part, I’m getting
pings in the order of ms, like 20-100ms on a bridged connection… and NFS
is going crazy...


My pings also increased from  0.1ms to 16ms when the physical interface
of the bridge was maxed out.
Don't know, whether transferring from VM to VM would also trigger that.


 I’m using smp on the guests (and the host), and 2.6.25 on the guests…


My guests where UP and mostly Windows Server 2003 and one Gentoo 2.6.26,
so I think the culprit is elsewhere.


Where should I start looking?  Is this a KVM-74 issue?  Bump to KVM-75?


You might try kvm-64 which is rock-solid for me when paired with a
2.6.25 KVM kernel module.

[1]
Sep 6 17:42:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CIFS VFS: server not responding
Sep 6 17:42:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CIFS VFS: No response to cmd 46 mid 30836
Sep 6 17:42:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CIFS VFS: Send error in read = -11
Sep 6 17:51:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CIFS VFS: server not responding
Sep 6 17:51:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CIFS VFS: No response for cmd 50 mid 30850

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Re: KVM-74 and network timeout?

2008-09-18 Thread Daniel Godás
Hi, ive been using a JetFlash usb-storage device with kvm-qemu and
Windows XP as a guest. I have seen that before setting up the device
properly, Windows resets it 5 or 6 times, which makes the process
awfully slow. Diving into the code I found that qemu's emulation was
not giving the host the right status when there was a babble or
stall situation. After applying the following patch the setup time
was cut up by a ~200%.

Cheers,
Daniel

--- old/kvm-75/qemu/usb-linux.c 2008-09-07 18:38:33.0 +0200
+++ new/kvm-75/qemu/usb-linux.c 2008-09-18 15:13:47.0 +0200
@@ -208,9 +208,13 @@
 p-len = aurb-urb.actual_length;
 break;

+case -EOVERFLOW:
+   p-len = USB_RET_BABBLE;
+   break;
 case -EPIPE:
 set_halt(s, p-devep);
-/* fall through */
+p-len = USB_RET_STALL;
+   break;
 default:
 p-len = USB_RET_NAK;
 break;


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