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Re: [lvs-users] LVS and Broadcom bug

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Subject: Re: [lvs-users] LVS and Broadcom bug
From: Jean-Sébastien Frerot <jean-sebastien.frerot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:33:44 -0400
>         Hello,
>
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Simon Horman wrote:
>
> >/ >     The problem exists because IPVS does not/
> >/ > disable LRO, it must be done under RTNL and IPVS never runs/
> >/ > in this context. And LRO is not supported for forwarding:/
> >/ > /
> >/ > http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121389887114416&w=2 
> ><http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121389887114416&w=2>/
> >/ > /
> >/ >     IPVS does not call ip_forward for DR method, that/
> >/ > is why you do not need forwarding and the LRO warning/
> >/ > does not occur before hitting the GSO code. ip_forward/
> >/ > just drops LRO packets:/
> >/ > /
> >/ >         if (skb_warn_if_lro(skb))/
> >/ >                 goto drop;/
> >/ /
> >/ Hi Julian,/
> >/ /
> >/ do you have any thoughts on how the code might be improved/
> >/ to handle this case a bit better?/
> >/ /
> >/ Perhaps something along the lines of the/
> >/ code for LRO in ip_forward?/
>
>         If you want to disable LRO in IPVS
> net/ipv4/devinet.c:inet_forward_change() is an example what
> should be done in process context if you want to disable
> LRO for all existing devices. Then call skb_warn_if_lro
> near or in IP_VS_XMIT and also before calling ip_local_out().
> May be LRO can be disabled when the first virtual or
> may be real service is added to allow LRO to work if IPVS
> is just compiled.
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
>
Hi,
  Do you guys know if there is any plan to fix this in ipvs soon ? We
have this exact problem when using ipvs and 2 different network cards
(intel and broadcom).

Thx.

Jean-Sébastien Frerot
-- 


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