packet loss on ixgbe using vlans and routing
John Hay
jhay at meraka.org.za
Fri Aug 20 14:04:26 UTC 2010
Hi Jack,
Have you had a chance to look at it yet? I would love to get these
network cards working. :-)
John
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 01:36:10AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
> Yes, I am here, I have been reading this, but I am also very busy with a
> couple of things, please be patient, I will get on this asap.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jack
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:40 AM, John Hay <jhay at meraka.org.za> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > (Jack any chance that you can look at this please?)
> >
> > It looks like there are 2 problems with the ixgbe driver on FreeBSD-8.
> > I have a Dell T710 with 4 X 10G ethernet interfaces (2 X Dual port Intel
> > 82599 cards). It is running FreeBSD RELENG_8.
> >
> > 1 - When routing (using vlans) there is heavy packet loss that go away
> > when you do "ifconfig ix2 -rxcsum". The packet loss seems to be on the
> > receive side because I do not see them on the receiving interface with
> > tcpdump. This seems to impact both ipv4 and ipv6.
> >
> > My test setup is the Dell T710 with its ix2 connected to a 10G port of
> > a Nortel 4526GTX. On that port I have 2 vlans configured with half of
> > the 1G ports in the one vlan and the other half in the other vlan.
> >
> > If I test with iperf from one of the machines on a 1G port to the T710,
> > I get 920Mbit/s. If I do it simultaneously from a few machines connected
> > to the 1G ports, all of them basically saturate their 1G links.
> >
> > If I now try to route from the one vlan to the other, ie. doing an iperf
> > from a 1G connected machine, through the T710, to another 1G connected
> > machine, I see packet loss, sometimes iperf is only able to do 100kbits/s.
> > (Configuring a tcp relay, like socat, on the T710, and working through it,
> > I again get 900Mbit/s and more.)
> >
> > So it seems that as long as the T710 with the 10G card is the start or
> > end point of the connection, I get no packet loss, but as soon as it
> > has to route, something go wrong.
> >
> > 2 - I see packet loss (0 - 40%) on IPv6 packets in vlans, when the
> > machine is not the originator of the packets. This happen even with
> > the "ifconfig ix2 -rxcsum".
> >
> > Let me try to describe a little more. If a neigbouring machine ping6 it,
> > there will be packet loss. If it act as a router for ipv6, there will be
> > packet loss. This happen even when the network is pretty idle and with
> > different switches (Nortel and Cisco equipment). The packet loss is
> > very fluctuating. Pinging 1000 packets might loose 1% one time and the
> > next time 30%. Looking with tcpdump, I can see the packets arriving and
> > going out, but the packet never arrive at the next machine. (My feeling is
> > that they get lost inside the card.) The error counters on the switch
> > does not increment.
> >
> > I do not see packet loss if the machine originate the packets, for example
> > ping6 from the machine. Also ipv4 packets do not have any packets loss. If
> > I do not use vlans, I don't see packet loss with ipv6 either.
> >
> > The machine also have bce 1G interfaces and I do not see the packet loss
> > on them.
> >
> > Here is some info about the machine / setup. The numbers are pretty low
> > because I rebooted after compiling a kernel with IPFIREWALL, ROUTETABLES,
> > MROUTING and FLOWTABLE removed. I'll add my kernel config file with empty
> > and commented out lines removed.
> >
> > pciconf -lvc
> > ix0 at pci0:129:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00038086 chip=0x10fb8086
> > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
> > vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> > class = network
> > subclass = ethernet
> > cap 01[40] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D3 current D0
> > cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit, vector masks
> > cap 11[70] = MSI-X supports 64 messages in map 0x20 enabled
> > cap 10[a0] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 256(512) link x8(x8)
> > ix1 at pci0:129:0:1: class=0x020000 card=0x00038086 chip=0x10fb8086
> > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
> > vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> > class = network
> > subclass = ethernet
> > cap 01[40] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D3 current D0
> > cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit, vector masks
> > cap 11[70] = MSI-X supports 64 messages in map 0x20 enabled
> > cap 10[a0] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 256(512) link x8(x8)
> > ix2 at pci0:131:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00038086 chip=0x10fb8086
> > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
> > vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> > class = network
> > subclass = ethernet
> > cap 01[40] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D3 current D0
> > cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit, vector masks
> > cap 11[70] = MSI-X supports 64 messages in map 0x20 enabled
> > cap 10[a0] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 256(512) link x8(x8)
> > ix3 at pci0:131:0:1: class=0x020000 card=0x00038086 chip=0x10fb8086
> > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
> > vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> > class = network
> > subclass = ethernet
> > cap 01[40] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D3 current D0
> > cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit, vector masks
> > cap 11[70] = MSI-X supports 64 messages in map 0x20 enabled
> > cap 10[a0] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 256(512) link x8(x8)
> >
> > output of vmstat -i
> >
> > interrupt total rate
> > irq19: ehci0 28371 0
> > irq21: uhci2 uhci4+ 48 0
> > irq23: atapci0 46 0
> > irq34: mpt0 146954 2
> > cpu0: timer 112205297 1999
> > irq256: bce0 52063 0
> > irq257: bce1 1 0
> > irq258: bce2 1 0
> > irq259: bce3 1 0
> > irq260: ix0:que 0 142258 2
> > irq261: ix0:que 1 56464 1
> > irq262: ix0:que 2 56199 1
> > irq263: ix0:que 3 56198 1
> > irq264: ix0:que 4 66569 1
> > irq265: ix0:que 5 56148 1
> > irq266: ix0:que 6 56217 1
> > irq267: ix0:que 7 56311 1
> > irq268: ix0:que 8 56169 1
> > irq269: ix0:que 9 69485 1
> > irq270: ix0:que 10 56176 1
> > irq271: ix0:que 11 56205 1
> > irq272: ix0:que 12 56281 1
> > irq273: ix0:que 13 56359 1
> > irq274: ix0:que 14 56292 1
> > irq275: ix0:que 15 56197 1
> > irq276: ix0:link 2 0
> > irq277: ix1:que 0 107873 1
> > irq278: ix1:que 1 56094 0
> > irq279: ix1:que 2 56097 0
> > irq280: ix1:que 3 56096 0
> > irq281: ix1:que 4 65439 1
> > irq282: ix1:que 5 56091 0
> > irq283: ix1:que 6 56092 0
> > irq284: ix1:que 7 56098 0
> > irq285: ix1:que 8 56091 0
> > irq286: ix1:que 9 56096 0
> > irq287: ix1:que 10 56093 0
> > irq288: ix1:que 11 56091 0
> > irq289: ix1:que 12 56096 0
> > irq290: ix1:que 13 56095 0
> > irq291: ix1:que 14 57125 1
> > irq292: ix1:que 15 56093 0
> > irq293: ix1:link 1 0
> > irq294: ix2:que 0 231250 4
> > irq295: ix2:que 1 57784 1
> > irq296: ix2:que 2 69956 1
> > irq297: ix2:que 3 59498 1
> > irq298: ix2:que 4 58201 1
> > irq299: ix2:que 5 58599 1
> > irq300: ix2:que 6 57813 1
> > irq301: ix2:que 7 60075 1
> > irq302: ix2:que 8 68639 1
> > irq303: ix2:que 9 58194 1
> > irq304: ix2:que 10 60752 1
> > irq305: ix2:que 11 57628 1
> > irq306: ix2:que 12 66796 1
> > irq307: ix2:que 13 63307 1
> > irq308: ix2:que 14 60788 1
> > irq309: ix2:que 15 59102 1
> > irq310: ix2:link 5 0
> > irq311: ix3:que 0 56090 0
> > irq312: ix3:que 1 56090 0
> > irq313: ix3:que 2 56090 0
> > irq314: ix3:que 3 56090 0
> > irq315: ix3:que 4 56090 0
> > irq316: ix3:que 5 56090 0
> > irq317: ix3:que 6 56090 0
> > irq318: ix3:que 7 56090 0
> > irq319: ix3:que 8 56090 0
> > irq320: ix3:que 9 56090 0
> > irq321: ix3:que 10 56090 0
> > irq322: ix3:que 11 56090 0
> > irq323: ix3:que 12 56090 0
> > irq324: ix3:que 13 56090 0
> > irq325: ix3:que 14 56090 0
> > irq326: ix3:que 15 56090 0
> > cpu1: timer 112196134 1999
> > cpu10: timer 112196179 1999
> > cpu3: timer 112196135 1999
> > cpu8: timer 112196108 1999
> > cpu4: timer 112196161 1999
> > cpu11: timer 112196179 1999
> > cpu5: timer 112196161 1999
> > cpu13: timer 112196179 1999
> > cpu6: timer 112196161 1999
> > cpu14: timer 112196179 1999
> > cpu2: timer 112196106 1999
> > cpu12: timer 112196179 1999
> > cpu7: timer 112196161 1999
> > cpu9: timer 112196155 1999
> > cpu15: timer 112196179 1999
> > Total 1799390156 32072
> >
> > netstat -m
> >
> > 133178/4042/137220 mbufs in use (current/cache/total)
> > 133112/2062/135174/262144 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
> > 133112/2056 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use
> > (current/cache)
> > 0/20/20/131072 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use
> > (current/cache/total/max)
> > 0/0/0/65536 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
> > 0/0/0/32768 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
> > 299518K/5214K/304733K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total)
> > 0/0/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters)
> > 0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k)
> > 0/0/0 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max)
> > 0 requests for sfbufs denied
> > 0 requests for sfbufs delayed
> > 0 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile
> > 0 calls to protocol drain routines
> >
> > kernel config file, basically started with 64 bit and removed the stuff
> > I do not need.
> >
> > cpu HAMMER
> > ident SEEKAT
> > device ipmi
> > makeoptions DEBUG=-g # Build kernel with gdb(1) debug
> > symbols
> > options SCHED_ULE # ULE scheduler
> > options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption
> > options INET # InterNETworking
> > options INET6 # IPv6 communications protocols
> > options SCTP # Stream Control Transmission
> > Protocol
> > options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem
> > options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates support
> > options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on big
> > directories
> > options CD9660 # ISO 9660 Filesystem
> > options PROCFS # Process filesystem (requires
> > PSEUDOFS)
> > options PSEUDOFS # Pseudo-filesystem framework
> > options GEOM_PART_GPT # GUID Partition Tables.
> > options GEOM_LABEL # Provides labelization
> > options COMPAT_43TTY # BSD 4.3 TTY compat (sgtty)
> > options COMPAT_IA32 # Compatible with i386 binaries
> > options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4
> > options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5
> > options COMPAT_FREEBSD6 # Compatible with FreeBSD6
> > options COMPAT_FREEBSD7 # Compatible with FreeBSD7
> > options KTRACE # ktrace(1) support
> > options STACK # stack(9) support
> > options SYSVSHM # SYSV-style shared memory
> > options SYSVMSG # SYSV-style message queues
> > options SYSVSEM # SYSV-style semaphores
> > options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES # POSIX-style semaphores
> > options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time
> > extensions
> > options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128 # Prevent printf output being
> > interspersed.
> > options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev
> > options HWPMC_HOOKS # Necessary kernel hooks for
> > hwpmc(4)
> > options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE # Include this file in kernel
> > options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
> > device cpufreq
> > device acpi
> > device pci
> > device ata
> > device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
> > device mpt # LSI-Logic MPT-Fusion
> > device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI)
> > device da # Direct Access (disks)
> > device pass # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)
> > device atkbdc # AT keyboard controller
> > device atkbd # AT keyboard
> > device psm # PS/2 mouse
> > device kbdmux # keyboard multiplexer
> > device vga # VGA video card driver
> > device splash # Splash screen and screen saver support
> > device sc
> > device agp # support several AGP chipsets
> > device uart # Generic UART driver
> > device loop # Network loopback
> > device random # Entropy device
> > device ether # Ethernet support
> > device pty # BSD-style compatibility pseudo ttys
> > device bpf # Berkeley packet filter
> > device uhci # UHCI PCI->USB interface
> > device ehci # EHCI PCI->USB interface (USB 2.0)
> > device usb # USB Bus (required)
> > device uhid # "Human Interface Devices"
> > device ukbd # Keyboard
> > device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and
> > da
> > device ums # Mouse
> >
> > kldstat
> > Id Refs Address Size Name
> > 1 55 0xffffffff80100000 6ea290 kernel
> > 2 1 0xffffffff807eb000 19e088 zfs.ko
> > 3 2 0xffffffff8098a000 3860 opensolaris.ko
> > 4 2 0xffffffff8098e000 20448 krpc.ko
> > 5 1 0xffffffff809af000 21100 geom_mirror.ko
> > 6 1 0xffffffff809d1000 66c0 if_vlan.ko
> > 7 1 0xffffffff809d8000 506c8 if_bce.ko
> > 8 2 0xffffffff80a29000 3ec20 miibus.ko
> > 9 1 0xffffffff80a68000 243e0 if_ixgbe.ko
> > 10 1 0xffffffff80a8d000 1e08 coretemp.ko
> >
> > ifconfig ix2 (with -rxcsum and global addrs modified)
> > ix2: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> > options=5b8<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,LRO>
> > ether 00:1b:21:57:ef:7c
> > inet6 fe80::21b:21ff:fe57:ef7c%ix2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
> > nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
> > media: Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-SR <full-duplex>)
> > status: active
> > ifconfig ix2.1
> > ix2.1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> > ether 00:1b:21:57:ef:7c
> > inet 10.0.28.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.28.255
> > inet6 fe80::21b:21ff:fe57:b420%ix2.1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9
> > inet6 2001:0:0:3:21b:21ff:fe57:b420 prefixlen 64
> > inet6 2001:0:0:3:: prefixlen 64 anycast
> > nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
> > media: Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-SR <full-duplex>)
> > status: active
> > vlan: 1 parent interface: ix2
> > ifconfig ix2.8
> > ix2.8: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> > ether 00:1b:21:57:ef:7c
> > inet 10.0.8.50 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.8.255
> > inet6 fe80::21b:21ff:fe57:b420%ix2.8 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa
> > inet6 2001:0:0:1:21b:21ff:fe57:b420 prefixlen 64
> > inet6 2001:0:0:1:: prefixlen 64 anycast
> > nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
> > media: Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-SR <full-duplex>)
> > status: active
> > vlan: 8 parent interface: ix2
> >
> > John
> > --
> > John Hay -- jhay at meraka.csir.co.za / jhay at FreeBSD.org
> >
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