Re: output discards (queue drops) on switchport

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I disabled the complete bond and just used a single 25 GBit/s link. The output
drops still appear on the switchports.

On 08.09.2017 14:12, Marc Roos wrote:
>  
> 
> Afaik ceph is is not supporting/working with bonding. 
> 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg35474.html
> (thread: Maybe some tuning for bonded network adapters)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Herrmann [mailto:andreas@xxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: vrijdag 8 september 2017 13:58
> To: ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  output discards (queue drops) on switchport
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a fresh Proxmox installation on 5 servers (Supermciro X10SRW-F, 
> Xeon E5-1660 v4, 128 GB RAM) with each 8 Samsung SSD SM863 960GB 
> connected to a LSI-9300-8i (SAS3008) controller used as OSDs for Ceph 
> (12.1.2)
> 
> The servers are connected to two Arista DCS-7060CX-32S switches. I'm 
> using MLAG bond (bondmode LACP, xmit_hash_policy layer3+4, MTU 9000):
>  * backend network for Ceph: cluster network & public network
>    Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx dual-port 25 GBit/s
>  * frontend network: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ 
> dual-port
> 
> Ceph is quite a default installation with size=3.
> 
> My problem:
> I'm issuing a dd (dd if=/dev/urandom of=urandom.0 bs=10M count=1024) in 
> a test virtual machine (the only one running in the cluster) with 
> arround 210 MB/s. I get output drops on all switchports. The drop rate 
> is between 0.1 - 0.9 %. The drop rate of 0.9 % is reached when writing 
> with about 1300MB/s into ceph.
> 
> First I thought about a problem with the Mellanox cards and used the 
> Intel cards for ceph traffic. The problem also exists.
> 
> I tried quite a lot and nothing help:
>  * changed the MTU from 9000 to 1500
>  * changed bond_xmit_hash_policy from layer3+4 to layer2+3
>  * deactivated the bond and just used a single link
>  * disabled offloading
>  * disabled power management in BIOS
>  * perf-bias 0
> 
> I analyzed the traffic via tcpdump and got some of those "errors":
>  * TCP Previous segment not captured
>  * TCP Out-of-Order
>  * TCP Retransmission
>  * TCP Fast Retransmission
>  * TCP Dup ACK
>  * TCP ACKed unseen segment
>  * TCP Window Update
> 
> Is that behaviour normal for ceph or has anyone ideas how to solve that 
> problem with the output drops at switch-side
> 
> With iperf I can reach full 50 GBit/s on the bond with zero output 
> drops.
> 
> Andreas
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