Re: [Xen-users] massive packet loss under network and disk load

["Ryan Burke" <burke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> As mentioned on a post to a thread about drbd and Xen I've been seeing
> some horrific packet loss under network and disk IO load which has been
> causing huge problems for drbd syncing and replication.
>
> After testing many parameters and settings I have found that this
> appears to make the problem go away:
>
> vif = [
>          'rate=20MB/s,mac=AA:01:06:6D:FD:02, bridge=xenbr2'
>   ]
>
> 'this' being the 'rate=20MB/s'.
>
> I'm not sure if this is merely brushing the problem under the carpet
> but, all other things being at default settings, adding and removing the
> rate option from the vif reliably makes the problem go away or come back.
>
> The thing that worries me is that even with this parameter on the vif I
> still see what I'd call massive packet loss on the vif for this domU as
> seen in xm top.
>
> All the dropped packets are RX
>
> It looks like this:
>
> Net0 RX: 544045974bytes  6253667pkts        0err    52645drop  TX:
> 334397858bytes  3644125pkts
>
> I hope that I am interpreting this correctly, that the '52645drop'
> indicates RX packets dropped...
>
> I am seeing hundreds of drops per second.
>
> Within the domU, ifconfig shows no dropped packets or errors.
>
> On dom0, ifconfig shows TX packets dropped:
>
> vif2.0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
>            inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:4187429 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:7189734 errors:0 dropped:60679 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>            RX bytes:383941238 (366.1 MiB)  TX bytes:1911795684 (1.7 GiB)
>

Just out of curiosity have you disabled TX checksums? I didn't follow your
previous thread so I don't know that others had suggested. Try "ethtool -
K eth0 tx off" and see if that helps your TX packet loss.

Ryan


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