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This is in response to a request in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665293 In short, under heavy load, it's possible for qemu's networking to lock up due to the tap device's default 1MB sndbuf being inadequate. adding "sndbuf=0" to the qemu commandline -netdevice option will alleviate this problem (sndbuf=0 actually sets it to 0xffffffff). Because we must be able to explicitly specify "0" as a value, the standard practice of "0 means not specified" won't work here. Instead, virDomainNetDef also has a sndbuf_specified, which defaults to 0, but is set to 1 if some value was given. The sndbuf value is put inside a <tune> element of each <interface> in the domain. The intent is that further tunable settings will also be placed inside this element. <interface type='network'> ... <tune> <sndbuf>0</sndbuf> ... </tune> </interface>
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>