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From: Scott Tsai <scottt.tw@gmail.com>
To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <cdall@vmware.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Networking hangs
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:44:42 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef2f888d0911201544m6448df4cmc91de00fef7af522@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091120232955.GH27493@hall.aurel32.net>

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:48:02PM -0500, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I am experiencing problems with bridged networking to ARM guests. I have
>> experimented with various kernel versions, distributions and host
>> machines and I experience the problem in all cases.
>>
>> When I copy files into the guest using SCP, after an undeterministic
>> number of megabytes have been copied, the network crashes. At this point
>> not even pings to localhost works inside the guest.
>>
>> I am using v0.11.0, emulating a versatilepb board with an arm1136-r2 cpu
>
> Have you tried to use the stable-0.11 branch (that will become 0.11.1 at
> some point) instead? It has some ARM and network related fixes.

Using the files that Christoffer uploaded, I can reproduce this bug
even on stable-0.11.
(i.e. using scp to copy a large file seems to "hang" the network stack
in the guest to the point that even "ping 127.0.0.1" fails)

The interesting part about this bug is that Christoffer patched the
Linux kernel to allow using an ARMv6 CPU on the versatilepb board.
I've verified that by changing the emulated cpu from arm1136-r2 to
arm926 and building a kernel for the arm926 this bug no longer
happens.

I'm not familiar enough with the ARM architecture to explain why the
versatilepb board would have such "reliability problems" with
arm1136-r2 CPU right away.
I was about to try emulating a arm1136-r2 CPU on a realview board.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-20 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-19 22:48 [Qemu-devel] Networking hangs Christoffer Dall
2009-11-20 18:41 ` Scott Tsai
2009-11-20 20:19   ` Christoffer Dall
2009-11-20 23:29 ` Aurelien Jarno
2009-11-20 23:44   ` Scott Tsai [this message]
2009-12-04  0:55     ` Christoffer Dall
2009-12-16  3:09       ` Scott Tsai

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