From owner-freebsd-xen@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 11 13:29:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE1D106574C for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:29:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f173.google.com (mail-qy0-f173.google.com [209.85.221.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 129A18FC08 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:29:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by qyk3 with SMTP id 3so2120759qyk.3 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:29:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nx63o2XERGsB/iv0BNfm5jyeC7cCrnM8inkFfofzz2k=; b=Y5VetL+1fRSQJ4p4bVXqJWir5zUXCdpbDYlXcpethiLUaogjfdbjgeJkIOZnaaBKkd CBEIROtGwgRmFvIyZ/nd5wHI9R8ZO5/mFZG9tWs8Aez9I8STyRU5UEDdbwxNYTi5+l6Q vi1LC+hhr+YqP3ffKuhnc0Zf89SEWfVfZ/lpc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=x+8FI5cC1Qel/bMyII7acSuCBsdHXqudeBsZfRl+JEAwyZfcZ8dmu0HcrfWdY3+W2I jQW77cNLzTWt/5hfzVHctBaPDOXY7xQXHxbG045c45LD49vg2Xeepw5GDW8kEz3ZWVWI Gvi1O77OOnQe4AUX7Wru9XsRjn0z+Iysov9HY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.109.202 with SMTP id k10mr591945qcp.58.1244726976198; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:29:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1244723745.5685.34.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net> References: <200906100521.n5A5LAZm043093@freefall.freebsd.org> <1244642935.5685.8.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net> <2eb767d30906101415g77007adfr6e2fc214053d5f74@mail.gmail.com> <1244723745.5685.34.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:29:36 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7944b9bb9dde50bc Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: mister.olli@googlemail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, Mukosi Mukwevho Subject: Re: kern/135421: [xen] FreeBSD Xen PVM DomU network failure - netfronc.c driver crashes when downloading/uploading files X-BeenThere: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of the freebsd port to xen - implementation and usage List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:29:37 -0000 2009/6/11 Mister Olli : > Hi Mukosi, > > great to hear that the workaround did work for you also. I hope the > developers will disable TSO by default in the xn driver (if it is > possible ;-)) Its possible, but TSO related crashes should be fixed rather than patched around. > I'm currently running 8-CURRENT on svn revision 193636 but I started > around 5 months ago testing 8-CURRENT as PV domU and I started building > the domU using vmware and then transported the disk image via DD onto my > xen box. > This way is quite complex. IMHO the easiest way (at the moment) is to > start off with the xen images adrian is providing for download > (http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenImages/) as you're then able to > build your own system as you like it. :) Thanks. I'll hopefully get some time next week to investigate the other netfront related crashes and see if I can make the driver more sensible. adrian