The following reply was made to PR port-xen/34005; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: port-xen-maintainer@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-xen/34005: xen3 loses bio requests?
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:37:33 +0200

 On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 05:15:00AM +0000, yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp wrote:
 > 	after switching one of my machines from xen2 to xen3,
 > 	i occasionally (less frequently than once a day) see lwps in domU
 > 	stucking in "biowait", "vflushbuf".  (and "vnlock").
 > 	i guess in some cases bio requests get stuck or lost?
 > 
 > 	i haven't successfully checked if it was the whole xbd or just
 > 	some requests being stuck.
 > 
 > 	- it's a single processor machine.
 > 	- both of dom0 and domU are netbsd-current.
 > 	  (i haven't noticed the problem on linux domU yet,
 > 	  but it can be a matter of luck.)
 > 	- it used to work fine with xen2.
 
 Hi,
 could you try current with these changes:
 cvs rdiff -r1.12 -r1.13 src/sys/arch/xen/include/cpufunc.h
 cvs rdiff -r1.5 -r1.6 src/sys/arch/xen/include/xen3-public/io/ring.h
 
 It seems to fixe a similar hang in the network interface for me ...
 
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 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
      NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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