Description of problem: When installing OS on guest which have a rtl8139 card via NFS, I found a lot of packets is retransmitted or timeout, and file transmission via NFS is very slow. Then I changed nic type to e1000, file transfer speed is back to normal. public net. private net with a private bridge. NFSServer-------------- Host(RHEL5.6)--------------Guest(RHEL5.5) Version-Release number of selected component: # rpm -q kernel kernel-2.6.18-233.el5 # rpm -q kvm kvm-83-219.el5 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start a VM with following command, and start a unattended_install: qemu -name 'vm1' -monitor unix:'/tmp/monitor-humanmonitor1-20101204-045808-YVkj',server,nowait -serial unix:'/tmp/serial-20101204-045808-YVkj',server,nowait -drive file='RHEL-Server-5.5-64.qcow2',index=0,if=ide,media=disk,cache=none,format=qcow2 -net nic,vlan=0,model=rtl8139,macaddr='9a:25:00:89:f2:49' -net tap,vlan=0,ifname='t0-045808-YVkj',script='qemu-ifup-vbr0',downscript='no' -m 4096 -smp 2,cores=1,threads=1,sockets=2 -drive file='rhel5-64/ks.iso',media=cdrom,index=1 -cpu qemu64,+sse2 -soundhw ac97 -kernel '/usr/local/staf/test/RHEV/kvm-new/autotest/client/tests/kvm/vmlinuz' -initrd '/usr/local/staf/test/RHEV/kvm-new/autotest/client/tests/kvm/initrd.img' -vnc :0 -spice port=8000,disable-ticketing -qxl 1 -rtc-td-hack -M rhel5.5.0 -usbdevice tablet -append 'ks=cdrom console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0' -no-kvm-pit-reinjection 2. tcpdump on the tap device guest created. 3. installation is slow, and many retransmission. Actual results: file transmission speed is slow, packet retransmission. Expected results: nearly no packet retransmission, file transmission speed is normal. Additional info: dmesg on guest os is attached.
*** Bug 660582 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 660583 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 465185 [details] dmesg output on guest os