kvm vlan virtio problem

Bane Ivosev bane.ivosev at pmf.uns.ac.rs
Sun Nov 4 00:59:07 UTC 2012


thanks bryan, i don't have vlans inside guest.

as you suggested i disabled nic tso

ifconfig vtnet0 -tso
and
sysctl  net.inet.tcp.tso=0 and

so far, so good!
everything is ok now.

once again, thanks a lot.


On 11/03/2012 09:40 PM, Bryan Venteicher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bane Ivosev"<bane.ivosev at pmf.uns.ac.rs>
>> To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>> Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 2:12:25 PM
>> Subject: kvm vlan virtio problem
>>
>> hi, i have several kvm ubuntu 12.04 and centos 6 hosts with standard
>> bridged network setup. same problem on each server with freebsd 9
>> amd64
>> guest and virtio nic: soon after guest start host syslog is filling
>> with
>> this message at very high rate. guest is working without any problem.
>> with e1000 guest driver eveything is ok.
>>
>> does enyone have/had same problem?
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>
> I have a vague recollection of looking at something similar last year...
>
> Do you have VLAN configured in the guest as well? What is the ifconfig
> output? Does disabling TSO on the vtnetX device make these messages go
> away?
>
> Bryan
>
>>
>>    kernel: [2337728.094141] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>    kernel: [2337728.094144] WARNING: at
>> /build/buildd/linux-3.2.0/net/core/dev.c:1955
>> skb_gso_segment+0x341/0x3b0()
>>    kernel: [2337728.094146] Hardware name: System x3550 M3 -[7944K3G]-
>>    kernel: [2337728.094148] 802.1Q VLAN Support: caps=(0x30195833,
>>    0x0)
>> len=3196 data_len=0 ip_summed=0
>>    kernel: [2337728.094149] Modules linked in: dm_snapshot
>> ip6table_filter ip6_tables ebtable_nat ebtables ipt_MASQUERADE
>> iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_state
>> nf_conntrack ipt_REJECT xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle xt_tcpudp
>> iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables kvm_intel kvm dm_crypt nfsd nfs
>> lockd
>> fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl sunrpc nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat
>> 8021q garp bridge stp serio_raw cdc_ether usbnet vhost_net macvtap
>> i7core_edac macvlan shpchp ioatdma edac_core dca tpm_tis lp parport
>> mac_hid btrfs zlib_deflate libcrc32c usbhid hid megaraid_sas bnx2
>>    kernel: [2337728.094177] Pid: 8685, comm: vhost-8683 Tainted: G
>>    W    3.2.0-31-generic #50-Ubuntu
>>    kernel: [2337728.094179] Call Trace:
>>    kernel: [2337728.094180]<IRQ>   [<ffffffff81066d7f>]
>> warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
>>    kernel: [2337728.094185]  [<ffffffff81066e76>]
>>    warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
>>    kernel: [2337728.094188]  [<ffffffff8153f581>]
>>    skb_gso_segment+0x341/0x3b0
>>    kernel: [2337728.094191]  [<ffffffff81542ee1>]
>> dev_hard_start_xmit+0xc1/0x540
>>    kernel: [2337728.094196]  [<ffffffffa01c0150>] ? br_flood+0xc0/0xc0
>> [bridge]
>>    kernel: [2337728.094199]  [<ffffffff8154360a>]
>>    dev_queue_xmit+0x2aa/0x420
>>    kernel: [2337728.094203]  [<ffffffffa01c01e2>]
>> br_dev_queue_push_xmit+0x92/0xd0 [bridge]
>>    kernel: [2337728.094208]  [<ffffffffa01c0278>]
>> br_forward_finish+0x58/0x60 [bridge]
>>    kernel: [2337728.094212]  [<ffffffffa01c042b>]
>>    __br_forward+0xab/0xd0
>> [bridge]
>>    kernel: [2337728.094217]  [<ffffffffa01c04ed>] br_forward+0x5d/0x70
>> [bridge]
>>    kernel: [2337728.094221]  [<ffffffffa01c11c2>]
>> br_handle_frame_finish+0x182/0x2a0 [bridge]
>>    kernel: [2337728.094226]  [<ffffffffa01c14a8>]
>> br_handle_frame+0x1c8/0x270 [bridge]
>>    kernel: [2337728.094231]  [<ffffffffa01c12e0>] ?
>> br_handle_frame_finish+0x2a0/0x2a0 [bridge]
>>    kernel: [2337728.094234]  [<ffffffff81540892>]
>> __netif_receive_skb+0x1e2/0x520
>>    kernel: [2337728.094237]  [<ffffffff81540ff1>]
>>    process_backlog+0xb1/0x190
>>    kernel: [2337728.094240]  [<ffffffff815422e4>]
>>    net_rx_action+0x134/0x290
>>    kernel: [2337728.094242]  [<ffffffff8165a4fe>] ?
>>    _raw_spin_lock+0xe/0x20
>>    kernel: [2337728.094245]  [<ffffffff8106e528>]
>>    __do_softirq+0xa8/0x210
>>    kernel: [2337728.094248]  [<ffffffff81664d6c>]
>>    call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
>>    kernel: [2337728.094249]<EOI>   [<ffffffff81015305>]
>>    do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
>>    kernel: [2337728.094254]  [<ffffffff815427c8>]
>>    netif_rx_ni+0x28/0x30
>>    kernel: [2337728.094258]  [<ffffffff81478ec6>]
>>    tun_get_user+0x306/0x4a0
>>    kernel: [2337728.094261]  [<ffffffff81479085>]
>>    tun_sendmsg+0x25/0x30
>>    kernel: [2337728.094265]  [<ffffffffa01b09b6>]
>>    handle_tx+0x296/0x530
>> [vhost_net]
>>    kernel: [2337728.094269]  [<ffffffffa01b0c85>]
>> handle_tx_kick+0x15/0x20 [vhost_net]
>>    kernel: [2337728.094273]  [<ffffffffa01ade3d>]
>>    vhost_worker+0xdd/0x170
>> [vhost_net]
>>    kernel: [2337728.094276]  [<ffffffffa01add60>] ?
>> vhost_set_memory+0x130/0x130 [vhost_net]
>>    kernel: [2337728.094279]  [<ffffffff8108a03c>] kthread+0x8c/0xa0
>>    kernel: [2337728.094282]  [<ffffffff81664c74>]
>> kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
>>    kernel: [2337728.094285]  [<ffffffff81089fb0>] ?
>> flush_kthread_worker+0xa0/0xa0
>>    kernel: [2337728.094287]  [<ffffffff81664c70>] ?
>>    gs_change+0x13/0x13
>>    kernel: [2337728.094289] ---[ end trace a38cf088269411b3 ]---
>>    kernel: [2337728.094731] ------------[ cut here ]------------
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