On 4/13/10, Blue Swirl <blauwir...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/12/10, Paul Brook <p...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > > > A major reason for this deadlock could likely be removed by shutting > > > down the tap (if peered) or dropping packets in user space (in case of > > > vlan) when a NIC is stopped or otherwise shut down. Currently most (if > > > not all) NIC models seem to signal both "queue full" and "RX disabled" > > > via !can_receive(). > > > > > > No. A disabled device should return true from can_recieve, then discard the > > packets in its receive callback. Failure to do so is a bug in the device. > It > > looks like the virtio-net device may be buggy. > > > Awesome, it looks like a longstanding bug with pcnet/lance has is > fixed by this change! OpenBSD installer would hang when receiving > packages, now it works!
I spoke too soon, networking works also without the patch now.
