On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 08:03:12PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 03:31:33PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> > Looks like the culprit is very likely d85b758f72b0 "virtio_net: fix
> > support for small rings".
> > 
> > After that patch, my NFS server VM stops responding to packets after a
> > few minutes of testing.  Before that patch, my server keeps working.
> > 
> > --b.
> 
> 
> So I think I know what caused this: looks like some hypervisors
> aren't prepared to deal with a situation where packet size
> becomes very small.
> 
> But which hypervisors exactly? I'd like to know in order to detect these
> and decide whether I blacklist bad ones or whitelist known-good ones.

I'm running this under KVM on a Fedora 25 host
(4.10.15-200.fc25.x86_64).  Let me know if any more details about the
setup would be useful.

--b.
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