[DRBD-user] drbd-user Digest, Vol 69, Issue 9

Maros Timko timkom at gmail.com
Fri Apr 9 21:54:06 CEST 2010

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:48:54 +0200
> From: Florian Haas <florian.haas at linbit.com>
> Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD Kernel Panic DRBD->LVM->Xen
> To: DRBD Lists <drbd-user at lists.linbit.com>
> Message-ID: <4BBE2516.3090509 at linbit.com>
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> On 04/08/2010 08:14 PM, Hany Fahim wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm currently running a Xen setup using the CentOS distribution DRBD
>> 8.3.2 from Extras Repo. I'm running into consistent kernel panics when
>> I'm benchmarking the individual DomUs. When the primary node crashes,
>> the secondary also panics shortly after and the two servers reboot in
>> tandem. Doing a search in Google, I found someone else who has the exact
>> same issue as I do:
>>
>> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2008-December/000775.html
>
> And it was answered here:
>
> http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2008-December/011092.html
>
> Maybe Maros can share additional findings.
>

Actualy the initial analysis from Simon Graham is here:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/drbd/users/16962

Since then LinBit promptly introduced already mentioned kernel module
parameter that can be used instead of disabling scatter-gather or
similar TSO options of the NIC.

> Florian
>



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