e1000 driver in Win2k12 is really well rotten. It 100% hangs on shutdown
of UP VM under flood ping. The guest checks card state and reinjects
itself interrupt in a loop. This is fatal for UP machine.
There is no good way to fix this misbehavior but to kludge it. The
emulation has interrupt throttling register aka ITR which limits
interrupt rate and allows the guest to proceed this phase.
There is no problem with this kludge for Linux guests - it adjust the
value of it itself.
On the other hand according to the initial research in
commit e9845f0985
Author: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Aug 2 18:30:52 2013 +0200
e1000: add interrupt mitigation support
...
Interrupt mitigation boosts performance when the guest suffers from
an high interrupt rate (i.e. receiving short UDP packets at high packet
rate). For some numerical results see the following link
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/papers/20130520-rizzo-vm.pdf
this should also boost performance a bit.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874406 for additional
details.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
CC: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
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