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Re: [lvs-users] Solved: Client, Server and Director in same LAN

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Subject: Re: [lvs-users] Solved: Client, Server and Director in same LAN
From: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:22:38 +0900
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 10:41:37PM +0100, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
> On Thursday 28 October 2010 15:59:17 Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 October 2010 13:42:47 Simon Horman wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:24:36AM +0200, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > is it possible to use direct routing with clients, real server and
> > > > director in the same LAN?
> > > 
> > > Yes. Actually, that is how I do most of my testing.
> > 
> > Do you have any idea why the director might limit the performance of our
> > system? Without LB I get 100 connections/s to the real IP address of a real
> > server. When I address the virtual IP of the director I get a performance
> > drop to 1 connection/s.
> > 
> > tcpdump shows that sometimes I have no traffic at all on the line to 0.2
> > sec.
> > 
> > Any ideas? Thanks.
> 
> Probably a bug with gso in the igb network card driver.

I don't think that LVS handles GSO properly and that
as a work-around it needs to be disabled. I will try and
find a more satisfactory fix to this problem.


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