Kevin Stange, Good attempt, jumbo frame is extremely important if hosting for IaaS, not to mention other provider who need feather for network specific application. Xlord -----Original Message----- From: CentOS-virt [mailto:centos-virt-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Stange Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2017 3:30 AM To: centos-virt at centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] NIC Stability Problems Under Xen 4.4 / CentOS 6 / Linux 3.18 On 01/30/2017 06:41 PM, Kevin Stange wrote: > On 01/30/2017 06:12 PM, Adi Pircalabu wrote: >> On 31/01/17 10:49, Kevin Stange wrote: >>> You said 3.x kernels specifically. The kernel on Xen Made Easy now >>> is a >>> 4.4 kernel. Any chance you have tested with that one? >> >> Not yet, however the future Xen nodes we'll deploy will run CentOS 7 >> and Xen with kernel 4.4. > > I'll keep you (and others here) posted on my own experiences with that > 4.4 build over the next few weeks to report on any issues. I'm hoping > something happened between 3.18 and 4.4 that fixed underlying problems. > >>> Did you ever try without MTU=9000 (default 1500 instead)? >> >> Yes, also with all sorts of configuration combinations like LACP rate >> slow/fast, "options ixgbe LRO=0,0" and so on. No improvement. > > Alright, I'll assume that probably won't help then. I tried it on one > box which hasn't had the issue again yet, but that doesn't guarantee > anything. I was able to discover something new, which might not conclusively prove anything, but it at least seems to rule out the pci=nomsi kernel option from being effective. I had one server booted with that option as well as MTU 1500. It was stable for quite a long time, so I decided to try turning the MTU back to 9000 and within 12 hours, the interface on the expansion NIC with the jumbo MTU failed. The other NIC in the LACP bundle is onboard and didn't fail. The other NIC on the dual-port expansion card also didn't fail. This leads me to believe that ONE of the bugs I'm experiencing is related to 82575EB + jumbo frames. I still think I'm also having a PCI-e issue that is separate and additional on top of that, and which has not reared its head recently, making it difficult for me to gather any new data. One of the things I've done that seemed to help a lot with stability was balance the LACP so that one NIC from onboard and one NIC from expansion card is in each LAG. Previously we just had the first LAG onboard and the second on the expansion card. This way, at least, given the expansion NIC's propensity toward failing first, I don't have to crash the server and all running VMs to recover. I've seen absolutely no issues yet with the 4.4 kernel either, but I am not willing to call that a win because of the quiet from even the servers on which no tweaks have been applied yet. I will continue the story as I have more material! :) -- Kevin Stange Chief Technology Officer Steadfast | Managed Infrastructure, Datacenter and Cloud Services 800 S Wells, Suite 190 | Chicago, IL 60607 312.602.2689 X203 | Fax: 312.602.2688 kevin at steadfast.net | www.steadfast.net _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt