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Date:      Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:29:36 +0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        mister.olli@googlemail.com
Cc:        freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, Mukosi Mukwevho <mukosi@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: kern/135421: [xen] FreeBSD Xen PVM DomU network failure -  netfronc.c driver crashes when downloading/uploading files
Message-ID:  <d763ac660906110629x5dfe75d1g24c5514002605e08@mail.gmail.com>
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>

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2009/6/11 Mister Olli <mister.olli@googlemail.com>:
> 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



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