Hi, > On 27 Oct 2015, at 15:37, Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> wrote: > > Hi Dave > > We discovered an issue in oxenstored: when it writes to the ring, it writes > a chunk of contiguous data. When it tries to write across ring boundary, > it returns a short-write. That leads to stalling mini-os's xenbus ring. > > Samuel provided a diff which solves the issue: > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/devel/403800#403800 > > You can find our discussions in that thread. Note that thread was mainly > for a patch to fix an issue in mini-os but we discovered that oxenstored > issue along the way.
Interesting! I always thought it was a bit odd that oxenstored could write a partial packet but I thought it would retry higher up and complete the transmit before sleeping. It’s certainly clearer to complete the write at the lower-level though. So I think the diff looks ok. Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
