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Date:      Wed, 09 Sep 2015 13:23:38 +0100
From:      Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= <roger.pau@citrix.com>, Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu>, freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XenServer 6.5(SP1) - HVM 're0: watchdog timeout' errors...
Message-ID:  <A2891C5E7F3BE7E072FEA13D@[10.12.30.106]>
In-Reply-To: <55EFF61A.3020409@citrix.com>
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--On 09 September 2015 11:04 +0200 Roger Pau Monn=C3=A9 =
<roger.pau@citrix.com>=20
wrote:

> In the meantime, I have the following crappy patch to FreeBSD if_re
> driver, which should disable the watchdog (I have not even compile
> tested this).

fyi - The patch stops the 'watchdog timeout' errors - but the NIC just=20
'dies' after the live migrate (i.e. same as before, but no errors logged).

VirtIO (vtnet) so far seems to work for migrates, and work for routing=20
traffic to other DomU guests - so I'm continuing to test that now as a=20
workaround (i.e. test with OpenVPN etc.)

The only thing I've noticed with it is that established TCP sessions=20
'through the DomU' tend to die during the migrate (i.e. the DomU 'lands' at =

the destination node - but any transfers in progress stall - there's a=20
50/50 chance they recover) - but if I migrate the Windows DomU that's=20
actually got the download in progress, the session stays up - hence more=20
testing needed.

-Karl



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