Hello, I am running Xen 3.3.1 with a Centos 5.3 dom0 and with 3 Ubuntu 8.04 and 1 Centos 5.3 dom0. One of the Ubuntu dom0s has two interfaces, one real PCI assigned via passthrough and one virtual; this host works as the router for the Network it serves. The problem that I have is that when network traffic picks up, and by this I mean rates close to 1Mbps, the network latency starts to creep up. From an average of a 100ms, it goes up to 3s, with spiks up to 10s. This is unbearable given that is a fair amount of interactive usage in the network. What can I do to figure out what is the issue here, and if there is a way to mitigate this problem? I have already limited the rate of the vifs to 5Mbps and I have QoS on the router limiting the outgoing speeds considerably below the max and prioritizing small packets to improve interactive sessions. I''ve checked the load of the entire system using xentop and the overall CPU usage does not go above 10%, nor the virtual machines are memory starved. I don''t know if this is related, but I get the following error in my kernel log: irq 21: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff802b1483>] __report_bad_irq+0x30/0x7d [<ffffffff802b16ba>] note_interrupt+0x1ea/0x22b [<ffffffff802b0bb2>] __do_IRQ+0xbd/0x103 [<ffffffff8028e122>] _local_bh_enable+0x61/0xc5 [<ffffffff8026cf04>] do_IRQ+0xe7/0xf5 [<ffffffff803a6cca>] evtchn_do_upcall+0x13b/0x1fb [<ffffffff8025f8d6>] do_hypervisor_callback+0x1e/0x2c <EOI> [<ffffffff8026df02>] monotonic_clock+0x35/0x7b [<ffffffff802063aa>] hypercall_page+0x3aa/0x1000 [<ffffffff802063aa>] hypercall_page+0x3aa/0x1000 [<ffffffff8026e4e5>] raw_safe_halt+0x84/0xa8 [<ffffffff8026ba22>] xen_idle+0x38/0x4a [<ffffffff8024a803>] cpu_idle+0x97/0xba [<ffffffff80634b09>] start_kernel+0x21f/0x224 [<ffffffff806341e5>] _sinittext+0x1e5/0x1eb handlers: [<ffffffff803dab93>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x55) Disabling IRQ #21 I''ve already passed the irq=poll parameter to the kernel, but I keep getting this error. Is it related? Thanks, Pepe _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users