netfront changes (was Re: i386/134926: FreeBSD-current Xen DomU networking panic - out of tx mbufs?)

[Adrian Chadd]

G'day,

I've committed some sanity checking code to the FreeBSD-current/Xen
netfront drivers. The driver now ensures there are TX mbuf and xen TX
ring descriptor slots available before it queues a packet.

There's some debugging printf()'s that will spit out messages when
things go awry, eg:

xn_start_locked: xn_tx_chain_cnt (254) + nfrags 2 >= NET_TX_RING_SIZE
(256); must be full!
xn_start_locked: xn_tx_chain_cnt (255) + nfrags 1 >= NET_TX_RING_SIZE
(256); must be full!

This seems to have ceased the panics under CPU/memory pressure on my
playpen server.

I'm going to continue tidying up the netfront driver a little more
over the next few days to hopefully wrap up some dangling loose ends
which I can see. I'd appreciate it if people could give
FreeBSD-current/Xen a right royal thrashing (eg, 4 FreeBSD vms on one
host pegging network and CPU traffic at maximum between each other) to
try and elicit any other crazy network behaviour. There's only so much
I can test atm.

Thanks,


Adrian




Adrian