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From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks•com>
To: "Jiri Pirko" <jiri@resnulli•us>, "Bjørnar Ness" <bjornar.ness@gmail•com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bonding (IEEE 802.3ad) not working with qemu/virtio
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:10:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56AA216B.3040105@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56AA1D65.2000509@cumulusnetworks.com>

On 01/28/2016 02:53 PM, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> On 01/28/2016 02:33 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 05:24:48PM CET, bjornar.ness@gmail•com wrote:
>>> As subject says, 802.3ad bonding is not working with virtio network model.
>>>
>>> The only errors I see is:
>>>
>>> No 802.3ad response from the link partner for any adapters in the bond.
>>>
>>> Dumping the network traffic shows that no LACP packets are sent from the
>>> host running with virtio driver, changing to for example e1000 solves
>>> this problem
>>> with no configuration changes.
>>>
>>> Is this a known problem?
> Can you show your bond's /proc/net/bonding/bond<X> ? And also in order to
> better see what's going on I'd suggest enabling the pr_debug() calls in the 3ad
> code:
> echo 'file bond_3ad.c +p' > /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control
> (assuming you have debugfs mounted at /sys/kernel/debug)
> Then you can follow the logs to see what's going on.
> I can clearly see LACP packets sent over virtio net devices:
> 14:53:05.323490 52:54:00:51:25:3c > 01:80:c2:00:00:02, ethertype Slow Protocols (0x8809), length 124: LACPv1, length 110
Nevermind my message, Jiri was right. My setup wasn't correct.
I have a virtio_net get_settings hack that enables me to test 802.3ad over virtio_net
locally.
Sorry about the noise.

> 
>>
>> I believe the problem is virtio_net for obvious reasons does not report
>> speed and duplex. Bonding 3ad mode makes that unconfortable :)
[snip]
Right, of course. My setup has some patches that add get_settings to virtio_net
to make it play nice for testing 803.2ad.

>>
>> Use team ;)
> 
:-)

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-28 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-25 16:24 bonding (IEEE 802.3ad) not working with qemu/virtio Bjørnar Ness
2016-01-28 13:33 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-01-28 13:53   ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-01-28 14:10     ` Nikolay Aleksandrov [this message]
2016-01-29 21:31 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-01-29 21:45   ` Jay Vosburgh
2016-01-29 21:48     ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-01-30  6:59       ` David Miller
2016-01-30 11:34         ` Jiri Pirko
2016-01-30 11:41         ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-01-31 14:50           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-02-01 18:49         ` Rick Jones
2016-01-31 14:58       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-01-31 14:35     ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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