Public bug reported:
I am observing a potential regression/different behavior between rel.
14.04 (dev branch) and release 13.04.
My hardware is: Cisco UCS blade B200-M3 and the network adapter card:
Cisco UCS VIC 1240.
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
Release: 14.04
uname -a
Linux konan2 3.13.0-19-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 24 02:36:06 UTC 2014
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The problem:
After starting a kvm with virtio interfaces I am passing HTTP traffic via an
external network traffic simulator.
The tool is sending a TCP packet of 3481B, because the tool MTU is set to
1400B, it splits the packets into 3 TCP segments.
When the 3 segments are received at the host eth1 interface, the host (ubuntu
14.04) reassembles the TCP packets into a larger packet (GRO), then passes the
packet up on vnet1. At this point, because vnet1 MTU is 1500B, it is supposed
to re-segment the packet and pass the 3 segments up to the VM. But it passes
the big 3481B packet instead.
This behavior did not happen when I tried the same scenario in release
13.04
I can disable this behavior by disabling TSO (TCP segment offloading in
the vnet), but I did not have to do this in rel. 13.04 and I feel the
MTU is not honored as it should be with rel. 14.04.
ip link show | grep eth1
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master br1 state
UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
ip link show | grep vnet1
16: vnet1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master
br1 state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 500
I am attaching two tcpdump/pcap traces that show a TCP transaction
passing on vnet1 when TSO is on and when TSO is off.
Please see:
- vnet1_tso_on.pcap
- vnet1_tso_off.pcap
in attachment.
I noticed there was a driver upgrade in rel. 14.04:
in 14.04:
ethtool -i eth1
driver: enic
version: 2.1.1.50
firmware-version: 2.1(3a)
bus-info: 0000:07:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: no
ethtool -i vnet1
driver: tun
version: 1.6
firmware-version:
bus-info: tap
supports-statistics: no
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: no
ethtool -k vnet1
Features for vnet1:
rx-checksumming: off [fixed]
tx-checksumming: on
tx-checksum-ipv4: off [fixed]
tx-checksum-ip-generic: on
tx-checksum-ipv6: off [fixed]
tx-checksum-fcoe-crc: off [fixed]
tx-checksum-sctp: off [fixed]
scatter-gather: on
tx-scatter-gather: on
tx-scatter-gather-fraglist: on
tcp-segmentation-offload: off
tx-tcp-segmentation: off
tx-tcp-ecn-segmentation: off
tx-tcp6-segmentation: off
udp-fragmentation-offload: on
generic-segmentation-offload: on
generic-receive-offload: on
large-receive-offload: off [fixed]
rx-vlan-offload: off [fixed]
tx-vlan-offload: on
ntuple-filters: off [fixed]
receive-hashing: off [fixed]
highdma: off [fixed]
rx-vlan-filter: off [fixed]
vlan-challenged: off [fixed]
tx-lockless: off [fixed]
netns-local: off [fixed]
tx-gso-robust: off [fixed]
tx-fcoe-segmentation: off [fixed]
tx-gre-segmentation: off [fixed]
tx-ipip-segmentation: off [fixed]
tx-sit-segmentation: off [fixed]
tx-udp_tnl-segmentation: off [fixed]
tx-mpls-segmentation: off [fixed]
fcoe-mtu: off [fixed]
tx-nocache-copy: on
loopback: off [fixed]
rx-fcs: off [fixed]
rx-all: off [fixed]
tx-vlan-stag-hw-insert: on
rx-vlan-stag-hw-parse: off [fixed]
rx-vlan-stag-filter: off [fixed]
l2-fwd-offload: off [fixed]
in 13.04 :
ethtool -i eth1
driver: enic
version: 2.1.1.39
firmware-version: 2.1(3a)
bus-info: 0000:07:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: no
ethtool -i vnet1
driver: tun
version: 1.6
firmware-version:
bus-info: tap
supports-statistics: no
supports-test: no
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: no
ethtool -k vnet1
Features for vnet1:
rx-checksumming: off [fixed]
tx-checksumming: on
tx-checksum-ipv4: off [fixed]
tx-checksum-ip-generic: on
tx-checksum-ipv6: off [fixed]
tx-checksum-fcoe-crc: off [fixed]
tx-checksum-sctp: off [fixed]
scatter-gather: on
tx-scatter-gather: on
tx-scatter-gather-fraglist: on
tcp-segmentation-offload: on
tx-tcp-segmentation: on
tx-tcp-ecn-segmentation: on
tx-tcp6-segmentation: on
udp-fragmentation-offload: on
generic-segmentation-offload: on
generic-receive-offload: on
large-receive-offload: off [fixed]
rx-vlan-offload: off [fixed]
tx-vlan-offload: off [fixed]
ntuple-filters: off [fixed]
receive-hashing: off [fixed]
highdma: off [fixed]
rx-vlan-filter: off [fixed]
vlan-challenged: off [fixed]
tx-lockless: off [fixed]
netns-local: off [fixed]
tx-gso-robust: off [fixed]
tx-fcoe-segmentation: off [fixed]
fcoe-mtu: off [fixed]
** Affects: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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MTU not honored in virtio vnet
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