Kernel Panic

I just upgraded to pvetest

Appears to be stable, the kernel panic is not repeated, but the network load in guests OS, syslog the host system clogged messages



10 minutes syslog up to 400 MB!!!



The load on the network directly on the host system does not cause problems!

maybe can you try to disable gso ?

ethtool -K eth0 gso off
 
pve-kernel-2.6.32-13-pve with same virtual environment works without any warnings or other problems

# pveversion -v
pve-manager: 2.3-7 (pve-manager/2.3/1fe64d18)
running kernel: 2.6.32-13-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 2.3-88
pve-kernel-2.6.32-13-pve: 2.6.32-72
pve-kernel-2.6.32-18-pve: 2.6.32-88
pve-kernel-2.6.32-17-pve: 2.6.32-83
lvm2: 2.02.95-1pve2
clvm: 2.02.95-1pve2
corosync-pve: 1.4.4-4
openais-pve: 1.1.4-2
libqb: 0.10.1-2
redhat-cluster-pve: 3.1.93-2
resource-agents-pve: 3.9.2-3
fence-agents-pve: 3.1.9-1
pve-cluster: 1.0-36
qemu-server: 2.3-8
pve-firmware: 1.0-21
libpve-common-perl: 1.0-44
libpve-access-control: 1.0-25
libpve-storage-perl: 2.3-2
vncterm: 1.0-3
vzctl: 4.0-1pve2
vzprocps: not correctly installed
vzquota: 3.1-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 1.3-18
ksm-control-daemon: 1.1-1
 
also found a similar problem here :

http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2012/12/18/61


solution is disabling gso with ethtool. (this is strange that you have the error message with gso disabled ....)


Note that I have had network performance (spike latency) problems with debian squeeze 2.6.32 kernel since qemu 1.2. (seem to be a problem with virtio driver and qemu 1.2)
Not sure it's related, but i'm using 3.2 kernel from backports, and it's working fine
 
also found a similar problem here :

http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2012/12/18/61


solution is disabling gso with ethtool. (this is strange that you have the error message with gso disabled ....)

My syslog don't have messages like skb_warn_bad_offload

Note that I have had network performance (spike latency) problems with debian squeeze 2.6.32 kernel since qemu 1.2. (seem to be a problem with virtio driver and qemu 1.2)
Not sure it's related, but i'm using 3.2 kernel from backports, and it's working fine

guest 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.35-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux - same problem
 
My syslog don't have messages like skb_warn_bad_offload



guest 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.35-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux - same problem

another similar bugreport on citrix xenserver
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX133961

Code:
[COLOR=#35383D][FONT=Arial]Enabling Generic Receive Offload (GRO) on Physical Network Interfaces (PIF) can flood the log file with the following messages:[/FONT][/COLOR]WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:1594 skb_gso_segment+0x1a1/0x250()[COLOR=#35383D][FONT=Arial]. This is due to a bug that incorrectly clears the feature flags in the netback driver.
[/FONT][/COLOR]
their bugfix seem to be a kernel update.

Do you have tried to disable GRO ?
 
I had the same Problem and I solved it by disabling rx-checksumming:

ethtool -K eth0 rx off

best regards
Michael
 

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