NIC Stability Problems Under Xen 4.4 / CentOS 6 / Linux 3.18

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I have three different types of CentOS 6 Xen 4.4 based hypervisors (by
hardware) that are experiencing stability issues which I haven't been
able to track down.  All three types seem to be having issues with NIC
and/or PCIe.  In most cases, the issues are unrecoverable and require a
hard boot to resolve.  All have Intel NICs.

Often the systems will remain stable for days or weeks, then suddenly
encounter one of these issues.  I have yet to tie the error to any
specific action on the systems and can't reproduce it reliably.

- Supermicro X8DT3, Dual Xeon E5620, 2x 82575EB NICs, 2x 82576 NICs

Kernel messages upon failure:

pcieport 0000:00:03.0: AER: Multiple Corrected error received: id=0018
pcieport 0000:00:03.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected,
type=Transaction Layer, id=0018(Receiver ID)
pcieport 0000:00:03.0:   device [8086:340a] error
status/mask=00002000/00001001
pcieport 0000:00:03.0:    [13] Advisory Non-Fatal
pcieport 0000:00:03.0:   Error of this Agent(0018) is reported first
igb 0000:04:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical
Layer, id=0400(Receiver ID)
igb 0000:04:00.0:   device [8086:10a7] error status/mask=00002001/00002000
igb 0000:04:00.0:    [ 0] Receiver Error         (First)
igb 0000:04:00.1: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical
Layer, id=0401(Receiver ID)
igb 0000:04:00.1:   device [8086:10a7] error status/mask=00002001/00002000
igb 0000:04:00.1:    [ 0] Receiver Error         (First)

This spams to the console continuously until hard booting.

- Supermicro X9DRD-iF/LF, Dual Xeon E5-2630, 2x I350, 2x 82575EB

igb 0000:82:00.0: Detected Tx Unit Hang
 Tx Queue             <1>
 TDH                  <43>
 TDT                  <50>
 next_to_use          <50>
 next_to_clean        <43>
buffer_info[next_to_clean]
 time_stamp           <12e6bc0b6> next_to_watch        <ffff880006aa7440>
 jiffies              <12e6bc8dc>
 desc.status          <1c8210>

This spams to the console continuously until hard booting.

- Supermicro X9DRT, Dual Xeon E5-2650, 2x I350, 2x 82571EB

e1000e 0000:04:00.0 eth2: Detected Hardware Unit Hang:
  TDH                  <ff>
  TDT                  <33>
  next_to_use          <33>
  next_to_clean        <fd>
buffer_info[next_to_clean]:
  time_stamp           <138230862>
  next_to_watch        <ff>
  jiffies              <138231ac0>
  next_to_watch.status <0>
MAC Status             <80383>
PHY Status             <792d>
PHY 1000BASE-T Status  <3c00>
PHY Extended Status    <3000>
PCI Status             <10>

This type of system, the NIC automatically recovers and I don't need to
reboot.

So far I tried using pcie_aspm=off to see that would help, but it
appears that the 3.18 kernel turns off ASPM by default on these due to
probing the BIOS.  Stability issues were not resolved by the changes.

On the latter system type I also turned off all offloading setting.  It
appears the stability increased slightly but it didn't fully resolve the
problem.  I haven't adjusted offload settings on the first two server
types yet.

I suspect this problem is related to the 3.18 kernel used by the virt
SIG, as we had these running Xen on CentOS 5's kernel with no issues for
years, and systems of these types used elsewhere in our facility are
stable under CentOS 6's standard kernel.  This affects more than one
server of each type, so I don't believe it is a hardware failure, or
else it's a hardware design flaw.

Has anyone experienced similar issues with this configuration, and if
so, does anyone have tips on how to resolve the issues?

-- 
Kevin Stange
Chief Technology Officer
Steadfast | Managed Infrastructure, Datacenter and Cloud Services
800 S Wells, Suite 190 | Chicago, IL 60607
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