Comment 29 for bug 1317811

HVM instance would have the same issue when using PV network drivers (which usually they do for performance). However one also needs to cause fragmented skbs which contain multiple compound page fragments. And that depends on many factors which may not always be easy to meet.

By now, there actually seems to be a work-around that has been applied to upstream v3.17. Looks like we have to pick the following (or actually get it into the stable process):

commit 97a6d1bb2b658ac85ed88205ccd1ab809899884d
Author: Zoltan Kiss <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Aug 11 18:32:23 2014 +0100

    xen-netfront: Fix handling packets on compound pages with skb_linearize