Hi All,
Some more data on this, I've reproduced this on another host that's a completely stock centos/xen deployment with a centos 6.6 domU.
Since I’m seeing the retransmissions on the VIF, I don't think it's related to the network stack but just in case.. Each host is connected via LACP with vlan tagging to a pair of stacked cisco 3750's. Host networking config is here:
The vm is on br99 here.
This is easily reproducable by just generating a 250mb random file and doing an scp, while watching with tshark:
tshark -R "tcp.analysis.retransmission"
There's no visible impact to the connection the vast majority of the time, which is why I think this has gone unnoticed.
Just to confirm this wasn't related to hardware / nics, I've reproduced this on:
- Dell PowerEdge M620 with broadcom nics - Dell C6220 with intel nics - Supermicro X8DTT with intel nics
Any ideas? =)
- Nathan