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Re: [Xen-users] TX tcp checksum errors with Xen GPLPV 0.9.9 Drivers (xen
Hello,
i'm sorry, but i just noticed more uptodate drivers, and that give much
more performance, and i think therefor the tx checksummin gissue is been
fixed.
Now with 0.9.11.pre5 driver:
domU CPU about 50%
Test Server:~# ./iperf -c Windows2003-DomU -p 2000 -t 60
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 10.11.2.7, TCP port 2000
TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local Test-Server port 50993 connected with Windows-2003-dom0 port 2000
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-60.0 sec 6.18 GBytes 885 Mbits/sec
the other way around:
domU CPU about 45%
tes server~# ./iperf -s -p 2000 -t 60
------------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on TCP port 2000
TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 4] local Test-Server port 2000 connected with Windows-2003-Dom0 port 1033
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.0-60.0 sec 2.19 GBytes 313 Mbits/sec
So transmitting packets (with all offloading disabled) isn't just perfect
yet, but got 1/3 wirespeed for 1GB Nic's/network.
Regards,
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Arjan Filius wrote:
Hello,
My first post on Xen-Users, so ..
i've discovered a strange problem.
Setup:
-A Windows server 2003R2 (x86) with GPL PV driver 0.9.9
ipferf 1.7.0 (from 2003)
-dom0 a opensuse 11.0 xen:
# rpm -q -a |grep -i xen
kqemu-kmp-xen-1.3.0pre11_2.6.25.5_1.1-7.1
kiwi-desc-xenboot-2.38-67.1
xen-3.2.1_16881_04-4.2
xen-tools-3.2.1_16881_04-4.2
xen-libs-3.2.1_16881_04-4.2
kernel-xen-2.6.25.9-0.2
iperf 2.0.4
-1 interface as trunk on dom0, with some vlans's and xen bridges
-1 test machine in same subnet as the domU windows 2003 server.
iperf 2.0.4
test:
1)
on testmachachine: iperf -c <domU-IP> -p 2000
on domU iperf.exe -s -p 2000
gives great performance, about 850Mbit/s
2)
The other way around:
on domU iperf -c <test-machine-IP> -p 2000
on test machine; iperf -s -p 2000
gives dramatically low results like 50KBit/s (no typo!)
3)
same tests as above but instead of a remote test machine using to dom0 gives
values beyound our physical limit (1.5GBit/s) in both ways.
(That may lead to a conclusion the something is wrong with the physical
network, but it's not, see point 4 )
4) iperf tests in both directions from dom0 to the remote machine are just
excellent. So nothing seems wrong with the physical network.
After some research i found exceptional many transmit tcp checksum errors.
for that i:
-disabled all NIC offloading on the test machine (ethtool -K ethx ... off)
-disables all NIC offloading on dom0 (ethtool -K ethx .... off)
-and finally disabled offloading in gplpv driver settings (gui)
-just to be sure also created a registry setting to disable NIC offloading
And still, after all this , while sniffing (tcpdump) on the virtual interface
at the dom0 (vifx.0) the first syn packet seems to have a correct checksum,
but the next packet (ACK 3th packet in tcp 3-way handshake) has an incorrect
checksum.
All folowing packets that are transmitted have all tcp checksum errors
So exept for the first outgoing SYN no other correct TCP checksum packets
seems to leave the system.
An other test met simple ftp results in terrible slow uploads (from domU to
test machine)
I did't investigate this ftp further, however it intreges me why from my
findings _any_ data gets transferred
just created a tcpdump on the vif of the ftp session, and found by the eye no
packet without checksum error. the relative acknowledge numer is in all
transmitted packets '0'.
While using the regular realtek NIC driver in xen i got a TX and RX
performance from about 85Mbit/s witch is acceptable for a 100MBit/s NIC
emulation, but not for the perpose i want to use (Gbit)
I also tried to sniff in the domU itself, but the M$ monitor tool seems just
not to see the NIC. didn't try winpcap/wireshark yet.
Any thoughts, experiences solutions?
Many thanks in advance
please while reply-ing, reply directly to my email adres too please
Regards,
--
Arjan Filius
mailto:iafilius@xxxxxxxxx
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