https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251208
Bug ID: 251208
Summary: bridge(4) combines multiple packets together when
traffic load is high
Product: Base System
Version: 12.1-RELEASE
Hardware: amd64
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Many People
Priority: ---
Component: kern
Assignee: b...@freebsd.org
Reporter: buh...@nfbcal.org
When running a bridge between em(4) and Xen PV virtual hosts, the
virtual hosts see a lot of oversized packets when inbound traffic is heavy
from the physical interface (em0) to the virtual interface of the bridge
(xnb0.domid) Here are some of the messages from the Xen VM that illustrate
the problem:
Nov 16 23:53:45 test-new /netbsd: xennet0: discarding oversize frame (len=
1518)
this happens over and over again, with two different frame sizes: 1518 and
1586.
The MTU on all interfaces is 1500.
Output of ifconfig bridge0 is as follows:
bridge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 02:05:35:15:6f:00
id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 2000 timeout 1200
root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
member: xnb34.0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
ifmaxaddr 0 port 6 priority 128 path cost 2000000
member: xnb33.0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
ifmaxaddr 0 port 5 priority 128 path cost 2000000
member: em0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
ifmaxaddr 0 port 1 priority 128 path cost 2000000
groups: bridge
nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
All the packets the vm is complaining about originate on a host on the
other side of a Cisco switch which reports no giant packets on any of its
interfaces. In addition, a tcpdump session on the bridge itself shows no
giant packets coming into it from any of its members.
What I think is happening is that packets are coming in at such a
rate, approximately 7500 pps, that the output side of the bridge is
grabbing 2 packets when it processes the output queue and sendning them
out as 1.
Additional notes:
This doesn't seem to affect hvm guests with Xen. I don't know if that's
because the emulated ethernet chips in Qemu silently discard the oversized
frames or if it's because the output routines used from the bridge(4)
driver are different. I'd guess the former, but I'm not familiar enough
with the bridge(4) code in FreeBSD to say for sure.
to reproduce, set up a Xen PV guest on a bridge paired with an em(4)
interface and send it as much traffic as you can. I'm driving the inbound
interface at about 100 mbits/sec, the maximum available on this particular
switch port.
Also, in case it isn't obvious, the FreeBSD installation in question, is
runing as the dom0 for this Xen installation. It's also running
xen-4.14.0, with the same version of the xentools instaled.
-thanks
-Brian
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