Comment 3 for bug 1894942

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bugproxy (bugproxy) wrote : Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2020-09-09 02:50 EDT-------
> Hi,
> the patches LGTM and I'll make it part of the Ubuntu builds.
>
> One question thou: on one hand "occasionally end up with" sounds like this
> is almost impossible to explicitly test, but then the attached debug patch
> suggests there might be a way to trigger this through protvirt.
> But even if that is the case backporting it to all kind of older versions
> there is no protvirt.
> So I wanted to ask:
> a) is there any way to reliably trigger this for A/B testing of the fix as
> far back as qemu 2.5?
> b) how real is the danger to hit and consequences of this in the
> pre-protvirt (=<Focal) era?

This is independent of protvirt.
uperf network workload with driver=qemu in libvirt for the network interface did trigger after some time.