lagg/lacp poor traffic distribution

[Eugene Grosbein]

On 21.12.2010 20:41, Fabien Thomas wrote:

>>>> 1. Is it a bug or design problem?
>>>
>>> How many queues have you with igb? If it's one it will explain why the flowid is bad for load balancing with lagg.
>>
>> How do I know? I've read igb(4) manual page and found no words
> vmstat -i will show the queue (intr for the queue) normally it's the number of CPU available.

# vmstat -i
interrupt                          total       rate
irq5: uart2                            8          0
irq18: ehci0 uhci5+                    2          0
irq19: uhci2 uhci4+                 2182          0
irq23: uhci3 ehci1                   124          0
cpu0: timer                     39576224       1993
irq256: em0:rx 0               115571349       5822
irq257: em0:tx 0               136632905       6883
irq259: em1:rx 0               115829181       5835
irq260: em1:tx 0               138838991       6994
irq262: igb0:que 0             157354922       7927
irq263: igb0:que 1                577369         29
irq264: igb0:que 2                280207         14
irq265: igb0:que 3                241826         12
irq266: igb0:link                      2          0
irq267: igb1:que 0             164620363       8293
irq268: igb1:que 1                238678         12
irq269: igb1:que 2                248478         12
irq270: igb1:que 3                762453         38
irq271: igb1:link                      3          0
cpu2: timer                     39576052       1993
cpu3: timer                     39576095       1993
cpu1: timer                     39575913       1993
Total                          989503327      49849

It seems I have four queues per igb card but only one of them works?

Eugene Grosbein