Re: epair and vnet jail loose connection.

On 11 Mar 2022, at 17:44, Johan Hendriks wrote:
> On 09/03/2022 20:55, Johan Hendriks wrote:
>> The problem:
>> I have a FreeBSD 14 machine and a FreeBSD 13-stable machine, both running the same jails just to test the workings.
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>> The jails that are running are a salt master, a haproxy  jail, 2 webservers, 2 varnish servers, 2 php jails one for php8.0 and one with 8.1. All the jails are connected to bridge0 and all the jails use vnet.
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>> I believe this worked on an older 14-HEAD machine, but i did not do a lot with it back then, and when i started testing again and after updating the OS i noticed that one of the varnish jails lost it's network connection after running for a few hours. I thought it was just something on HEAD so never really looked at it. But later on when i start using the jails again and testing a test wordpress site i noticed that with a simple load test my haproxy jail within one minute looses it's network connection. I see nothing in the logs, on the host and on the jail.
>>  From the jail i can not ping the other jails or the IP adres of the bridge. I can however ping the jails own IP adres. From the host i can also not ping the haproxy jail IP adres. If i start a tcpdump on the epaira interface from the haproxy jail i do see the packets arrive but not in the jail.
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>> I used ZFS to send all the jails to a 13-STABLE machine and copied over the jail.conf file as well as the pf.conf file and i saw the same behavior.
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>> Then i tried to use 13.0-RELEASE-p7 and on that machine i do not see this happening. There i can stress test the machine for 10 minutes without a problem but on 14-HEAD and 13-STABLE within a minute the jail's network connection fails and only a restart of the jail brings it back online to exhibit the same behavior if i start a simple load test which it should handle nicely.
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>> One of the jail hosts is running under VMWARE and the other is running under Ubuntu with KVM. The 13.0-RELEASE-p7 jail host is running under Ubuntu with KVM
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>> Thank you for your time.
>> regards
>> Johan
>>
> I did some bisecting and the latest commit that works on FreeBSD 13-Stable is 009a56b2e
> Then the commit 2e0bee4c7  if_epair: implement fanout and above is showing the symptoms described above.
>
Interestingly I cannot reproduce stalls in simple epair setups.
It would be useful if you could reduce the setup with the problem into a minimal configuration so we can figure out what other factors are involved.

Kristof