Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 600203
vhost net new userspace on old kernel: 95: falling back on userspace virtio
Last modified: 2013-01-09 17:40:32 EST
Description of problem: When starting a RHEL6 guest on RHEL6 host with vhost on, qemu monitor prompts "unable to start vhost net: 95: falling back on userspace virtio". Starting a RHEL5.5 guest doesn't have the issue. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.69.el6.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% # lsmod | grep vhost vhost_net 22833 0 macvtap 7573 1 vhost_net tun 16295 1 vhost_net CLI: # /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -m 2G -smp 2 -drive file=RHEL6.0-64-virtio.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio0,boot=on -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=drive-virtio0,id=virtio-blk-pci0,addr=0x3 -netdev tap,id=hostnet0,vhost=on -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,mac=76:00:40:3F:20:20,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -boot order=c,menu=on -uuid 17644ecc-d3a1-4d3c-a386-12daf50015f2 -rtc base=utc -no-hpet -rtc-td-hack -no-kvm-pit-reinjection -monitor stdio -cpu qemu64,+sse2 -balloon none -vnc :1 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start VM with vhost on using CLI give above Actual results: qemu monitor prompts "unable to start vhost net: 95: falling back on userspace virtio" Expected results: no such prompt and vhost net should work fine for rhel6 guest. Additional info: host info: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 67 model name : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 1216 stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 1000.000 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy bogomips : 2009.36 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc
guest info: kernel-2.6.32-33.el6
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What are the permissions you see on /dev/vhost-net? What are the SELinux permissions? Is your system configured for selinux to be in enforcing mode? Does disabling selinux make this work?
# ll /dev/vhost-net crw-rw----. 1 root root 10, 233 Jun 4 10:58 /dev/vhost-net # getenforce Permissive I guess it is not related with permission or selinux, since the issue only happens on rhel6 guest not on rhel5
The output of ls -lZ /dev/vhost-net will give you the selinux labels as well. vhost support is transparent to the guest, so the type of guest shouldn't be a concern. If you're getting this only with rhel6 then it could be an MSI-related issue.
# ls -lZ /dev/vhost-net crw-rw----. root root system_u:object_r:device_t:s0 /dev/vhost-net Tested again on qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.68.el6.x86_64, the problem doesn't exist. So a Regression.
Error code 95 is EOPNOTSUPP. mst should have a better idea on what's the failing route. It's surprising the same cmd line works fine for rhel5 guest.
The changelog for the .69 build had this bit related to virtio/vhost-net: - kvm-virtio-utilize-PUBLISH_USED_IDX-feature.patch [bz#595287] - Resolves: bz#595287 (virtio net/vhost net speed enhancements from upstream kernel)
mst, The problem came in Comment 0 because the host testing kernel was 2.6.32-25.el6.x86_64. The problem doesn't exist on host kernel 2.6.32-30.el6.x86_64 or 2.6.32-33.el6.x86_64. Obviously, this is fixed by solving Bug 593158. However, it is still strange if you look at Comment 7 where host kernel 2.6.32-25.el6.x86_64 with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.68.el6.x86_64 didn't have the problem. If it is not a problem (that we don't care), I think I shall close this one as NOTABUG. Sorry for making this trouble to all of you.
This is interesting in that rhel qemu should work on upstream kernels. So this could be a bug, but not a blocker and low priority. I will change the title appropriately.
Thanks, Michael.
Verified on qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.73.el6 with either kernel-2.6.32-25.el6.x86_64 or kernel-2.6.32-33.el6.x86_64. PASS
Tested on qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.77.el6 When starting a RHEL6 guest on RHEL6 host with vhost on, qemu monitor prompts "(qemu) Error binding host notifier: 28 unable to start vhost net: 28: falling back on userspace virtio". CLI: /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -usbdevice tablet -rtc-td-hack -m 2G -smp 2 -drive file=/root/zhangjunyi/rhel6_2.33_641.qcow2,if=virtio,boot=on,cache=none,format=qcow2,werror=stop,rerror=stop -drive file=/root/zhangjunyi/password.qcow2,if=virtio,format=qcow2,cache=none,werror=stop,rerror=stop -netdev tap,id=hostnet0,vhost=on -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=22:11:22:45:61:98 -netdev tap,id=hostnet1,vhost=on -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet1,id=net1,mac=22:11:22:45:62:98 -uuid `uuidgen` -cpu qemu64,+x2apic -device virtio-balloon-pci -boot order=cn,menu=on -monitor stdio -vnc :10 -qmp tcp:0:4444,server,nowait -qmp tcp:0:4445,server,nowait -name zhangjunyi Please NOTE: This issue only happened when boot two virtio nics,boot one virtio nic doesn't have the issue. host info 2.6.32-36.el6.x86_64 guest info: kernel-2.6.32-33.el6
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 602262 ***
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you.