Subject: Re: bond + tc regression ?

From: Jarek Poplawski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 10:48:08 +0000

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:36:16PM +0300, Vladimir Ivashchenko wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:10:10AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> 
> > >> ifconfig -a
> > > 
> > > bond0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1B:24:BD:E9:CC
> > >           inet addr:xxx.xxx.135.44  Bcast:xxx.xxx.135.47  Mask:255.255.255.248
> > >           inet6 addr: fe80::21b:24ff:febd:e9cc/64 Scope:Link
> > >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> > >           RX packets:436076190 errors:0 dropped:391250 overruns:0 frame:0
> > >           TX packets:2620156321 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> > >           RX bytes:4210046233 (3.9 GiB)  TX bytes:2520272242 (2.3 GiB)
> > 
> > Could you try e.g.: ifconfig bond0 txqueuelen 1000
> > before tc qdisc add?
> 
> The drops on ifconfig are not increasing - these numbers are there from some tests made
> before.
> 

I'm not sure what do you mean? IMHO you don't use qdiscs properly,
so any TX problems end with drops. (Older kernel versions could mask
this problem with requeuing.)

Jarek P.