Hi Gautam
pf_ring leverages on the linux kernel defragmentation support, thus we cannot 
do much on our side for that,
I see that your application is not exceeding 30% of cpu usage, are you sure you 
do not have spikes that are
hard to detect and your application cannot keep up with processing? Please 
provide pf_ring statistics in order
to figure out if packet loss is at kernel level or application level.

Alfredo

> On 20 Mar 2018, at 05:19, Chandrika Gautam <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alfredo,
> 
> Yes its a standard driver (Intel 82599 10 G) and server is hpdl380g9 
> servers(cpu clock speed 2GHz ).
> 
> We have another deployment in which fragmentation logic is enabled in 
> applications(g8 2.9 GHz) and we are not observing a drop in pf_ring stats.
> 
> How can we prove this to customer that enabling fragmentation in pf_ring 
> kernel could be causing this?
> Or can we tune ipfrag related parameters to support more number of fragmented 
> packets.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 1:51 PM, Alfredo Cardigliano <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi Gautam
> I guess you are using standard drivers, with defragmentation enabled in the 
> pf_ring kernel module,
> in that case if you have many fragments, at that rate, that could slow down 
> the processing. Did you
> try disabling defragmentation to figure out if the bottleneck is there?
> 
> Regards
> Alfredo
> 
> > On 19 Mar 2018, at 06:35, Chandrika Gautam <[email protected] 
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are observing some intermittent drops in pf_ring statistics in one of 
> > the production sites. I need your valuable inputs to debug this issue.
> >
> > Brief description of the setup is -
> >
> > Fragmentation is enabled at kernel level. Traffic at site is varying from 
> > 500Mbps to 1 Gbps. We have observed cpu usage per thread of our application 
> > and it is not exceeding ~20-30 percent and there are no alarms raised by 
> > applications.
> > So I am suspecting whether kernel fragmentation logic could slow down the 
> > processing and causing pf_ring to drop these packets. Can you please 
> > confirm whether this can cause the drop ?If yes, How shall we debug this 
> > issue.
> > Please let me know if you need any data from the sites.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Gautam
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