Hi Emil,

 We are only using the 82598 with the dom1 hosts. They are running
Centos 2.6.18-348.12.1 kernel with an updated ixgbe driver v3.17.3
downloaded from the Intel site.

We have ixgbe blacklisted on dom0 which is running Centos6 2.6.32-358.18.1

I do see a lot of the messages like this in the libvirtd.log:
23210: error : virNetlinkEventCallback:339 : nl_recv returned with
error: No buffer space available
but I could not find any info on what that might mean, or how to correct.

We are seeing the error count increase on the interface (ifconfig eth1 &
ethtool -S) as the ping progresses, but no messages anywhere

Thanks!
--Larry

On 09/03/2013 06:14 PM, Tantilov, Emil S wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: laurence.schuler [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2013 1:36 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [E1000-devel] Fwd: libvirt-qemu/kvm passthru
>> w/Intel 82598EB
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to configure two identical systems with the
>> following setup.
>>
>> dom0: Centos 6 OS on Apple Xserve i7 server with PCI cards
>> for 4GB FC (LSI FC949ES) and 10GB Ethernet (Intel 82598EB)
>>
>> dom1: Centos 5 OS  with passthru mode of PCI 4GB FC and 10GB
>> Ethernet (ixgbe and mptfc blacklisted in dom0)
>>
>> Everything starts ok, but networking in dom1 using the 10GB
>> interface has extremely high rtt w/ping tests (20-30ms avg).
> From the description above it seems you are using 82598 interfaces in both 
> dom0 and dom1, but you only see the issue on dom1? If that is the case, are 
> you only seeing the issue when dom1 runs Centos 5? What if you run dom1 with 
> Centos 6?
>
> I am not aware of any known issues with respect to passthru mode with qemu. 
> The driver should see and use the network adapter as usual and there should 
> be no special adjustments needed. We can try to reproduce this locally if you 
> could provide some additional information such as the distros and kernel 
> version of the host OS and the kernel versions in the VMs.
>
> Another thing to look at are any errors or warnings in dmesg when you bring 
> the VMs up. Also for the failing interface it is worth taking a look at the 
> stats while passing traffic via ethtool -S as this may give us an idea about 
> what is causing the performance drop.
>
> Thanks,
> Emil
>


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