Re: Issues with ixl(4)

2016-04-24 Thread Dustin Marquess
So I've done some more testing, and it's definitely some kind of interaction between ixl & lagg, and maybe even ix & lagg. It doesn't matter if lagg is using "lacp" or "loadbalance" (with the switch set appropriately), it happens on both. I did find out that statically adding an arp entry for the

Re: Issues with ixl(4)

2016-04-21 Thread K. Macy
On Wednesday, April 20, 2016, Dustin Marquess wrote: > I tried backing out that change and everything worked for a few minutes > and then started acting up again. Then I notice Sean Bruno's "TCP Packets > Drop!!!" email about LACP. I disabled LACP on the switch side and then > changed the lagg

Re: Issues with ixl(4)

2016-04-20 Thread Dustin Marquess
I tried backing out that change and everything worked for a few minutes and then started acting up again. Then I notice Sean Bruno's "TCP Packets Drop!!!" email about LACP. I disabled LACP on the switch side and then changed the lagg config from "lacp" to "roundrobin", and so far so good. On the

Re: Issues with ixl(4)

2016-04-20 Thread Eggert, Lars
On 2016-04-20, at 1:15, K. Macy wrote: > FWIW, NFLX sees performance close to that of cxgbe (by far the best > maintained, best performing FreeBSD 40G driver) with an iflib > converted driver. The iflib updated driver will be imported by 11 but > won't become the default driver until 11.1 for wont

Re: aliases & netmasks, WAS: Issues with ixl(4)

2016-04-19 Thread K. Macy
in -CURRENT that would have caused this? Try disabling inpcb route caching.I was afraid that this would happen. -M > > Thanks! > -Dustin > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Dustin Marquess > wrote: > >> I'm having some strange issues with ixl(4) and a X710-DA4

Re: Issues with ixl(4)

2016-04-19 Thread K. Macy
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Eggert, Lars wrote: > I haven't played with lagg+vlan+bridge, but I briefly evaluated XL710 boards > last year > (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2015-October/043584.html) > and saw very poor throughputs and latencies even in very simple setups.

Re: aliases & netmasks, WAS: Issues with ixl(4)

2016-04-19 Thread Dustin Marquess
me after this change. I have a bad feeling that changing the network mask on the alias is causing other issues. Was there some recent change in -CURRENT that would have caused this? Thanks! -Dustin On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Dustin Marquess wrote: > I'm having some strange issues

Re: Issues with ixl(4)

2016-04-18 Thread Eggert, Lars
27;t being performed (although enabled) and so I ran into packet-rate issues. I basically gave up and went with a different vendor. FWIW, the XL710 boards in the same machines booted into Linux performed fine. Lars > On 2016-04-19, at 6:06, Dustin Marquess wrote: > > I'm having some s

Issues with ixl(4)

2016-04-18 Thread Dustin Marquess
I'm having some strange issues with ixl(4) and a X710-DA4 card in a new-ish Intel-based server. I'm pretty much replicating an existing setup from an older AMD machine that used 2 x X520-DA2 cards and ixgbe(4). This is all on -CURRENT. It's meant to be a bhyve server, so the 4