[Xen-devel] Question about seperating request and response ring in PV network

2015-07-09 Thread openlui
Hi, all: I am trying to improve the performance of netfront/netback, and I found that there were some discussion about PV network performance improvement in devel mailing list ([1]). The proposals mentioned in [1] are helpful, such as multipage ring, multiqueue, etc, and some of them have

[Xen-devel] How to debug when vcpu state become to "Paused"

2015-06-08 Thread openlui
g ”xl debug-keys", "xen-hvmctx", etc, but no help. Thanks. --- Best Regards Openlui ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] Network blocked after sending several packets larger than 128 bytes when using Driver Domain

2015-03-28 Thread openlui
omains will be blocked after sending several packets from domu. However, which is different from the last mail is that there are not any exception logs in driver domain. I think maybe it is a bug for xen 4.5 + pci passthrough, could anybody give me some advice about how to debug and solve i

[Xen-devel] Does XEN now support VMDQ?

2015-03-25 Thread openlui
IC as driver domain, can VMDQ still be supported? Thanks. -- openlui Best Regards___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] Network blocked after sending several packets larger than 128 bytes when using Driver Domain

2015-03-25 Thread openlui
At 2015-03-20 00:48:01, "Zoltan Kiss" wrote: > > >On 19/03/15 03:40, openlui wrote: >> Hi, all: >> >> I am trying to use a HVM with PCI pass-through NIC as network driver domain. >> However, when I send packets whose size are larger than 128 bytes from

[Xen-devel] Network blocked after sending several packets larger than 128 bytes when using Driver Domain

2015-03-18 Thread openlui
0 eth14: <--- start TBDC dump ---> ... The difference of lspci command results before and after the network is hung show that the Status field changed from "MAbort-" to "MAbort+": Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR- The network can not be recovered even after we reload the bnx2 module in driver domain. -- openlui Best Regards ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

[Xen-devel] How to enable qemu-dm tracing in XEN

2015-03-08 Thread openlui
Hi: I want to enable qemu-dm's tracing in XEN. I have built qemu with "make debug=y tools" command, and found that during building, qemu is configured with "trace_backend=stderr" option. However, there aren't any trace log in /var/log/qemu/qemu-dm-{domain_name}.log. I have also tried to cal

Re: [Xen-devel] Why gpa instead of mfn is directed used in emulated nic

2015-03-05 Thread openlui
At 2015-03-05 19:09:41, "Tim Deegan" wrote: >Hi, > >At 10:54 +0800 on 05 Mar (1425549262), openlui wrote: >> 2. From the trace info and qemu-dm's log, it seems that it is "GPA" >> (Guest Physical Address) instead of "MFN" in the IOREQ'

[Xen-devel] Why gpa instead of mfn is directed used in emulated nic

2015-03-04 Thread openlui
Hi, all: I want to learn how the emulated NICs work in XEN. So I boot a DomU with an emulated rtl8139 NIC, ping host from DomU and capture the trace info using xentrace tool, and then check the log of qemu-dm and trace info analyzed by xenalyze tool. I have enabled debug in rtl8139.c and added

Re: [Xen-devel] Poor network performance between DomU with multiqueue support

2015-02-27 Thread openlui
At 2015-02-27 19:30:20, "David Vrabel" wrote: >On 27/02/15 10:59, Wei Liu wrote: >> >> Persistent grant is not silver bullet. There is email thread on the >> list discussing whether it should be removed in block driver. > >Persistent grants for to-guest network traffic is a flawed idea. It >eith

Re: [Xen-devel] Poor network performance between DomU with multiqueue support

2015-02-27 Thread openlui
At 2015-02-27 18:59:52, "Wei Liu" wrote: >Cc'ing David (XenServer kernel maintainer) > >On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 05:21:11PM +0800, openlui wrote: >> >On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 01:08:18PM +, Zhangleiqiang (Trump) wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014

Re: [Xen-devel] Poor network performance between DomU with multiqueue support

2015-02-27 Thread openlui
>On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 01:08:18PM +, Zhangleiqiang (Trump) wrote: >> > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 06:44:26AM +, Zhangleiqiang (Trump) wrote: >> > > > On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 01:17:16AM +, Zhangleiqiang (Trump) wrote: >> > > > [...] >> > > > > > I think that's expected, because guest RX d

[Xen-devel] PCI-Passthrough Error: transmit queue timed out

2015-01-31 Thread openlui
Hi, all: I have tried PCI-Passthrough to DomU in Xen. However, If we send packets to DomU for a while, there is chance that the networking of Domu will be disconnected. The corresponding syslog messages are as shown at the end of mail. And I found the following analysis at [1], I am wonder

[Xen-devel] How to find the corresponding interrupt no in Dom0 for "pirq" in debugging info

2015-01-29 Thread openlui
Hi, By using "xl debug-keys" method or "xentrace" command we can dump detailed info of physical irq binding and handling, and in dumped dmesg info, many lines will contain a "pirq" field. After looking up the code, I find the "pirq" is the value of "u.pirq.irq" field in struct evtchn. Ho

[Xen-devel] Question about kernel config for Dom0

2015-01-26 Thread openlui
Hi, all: I want to compile the Dom0 based on Linux 3.17.4 kernel, and make sure all of that the necessary config options for supporting Dom0 on official wiki ([1]) enabled. However, if I test the "network forwarding" performance for Dom0 using traffic generator, I find that the performance

Re: [Xen-devel] Difference between normal Dom0 and PVH Dom0

2015-01-23 Thread openlui
Thanks for you relay, Konrad. At 2015-01-23 22:29:48, "Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" wrote: >On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 03:54:07PM +0800, openlui wrote: >> Hi, all: >> From the article [1] and xen-colors picture from Brendan Gergg's blog >> [2], I have some under

[Xen-devel] Difference between normal Dom0 and PVH Dom0

2015-01-22 Thread openlui
Hi, all: From the article [1] and xen-colors picture from Brendan Gergg's blog [2], I have some understanding and question about PVH Dom0 as follows: 1. Even after pvops has been support in Linux mainline kernel, current XEN dom0 is still a "Full PV" domain (I will call it as "normal Dom