Re: [REGRESSION] Massive virtio-net throughput drop in guest VM with Linux 6.8+

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 09:59:19AM +0200, Torsten Krah wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, dem 02.04.2025 um 23:12 +0200 schrieb Markus Fohrer:
> > When running on a host system equipped with a Broadcom NetXtreme-E
> > (bnxt_en) NIC and AMD EPYC CPUs, the network throughput in the guest
> > drops to 100–200 KB/s. The same guest configuration performs normally
> > (~100 MB/s) when using kernel 6.8.0 or when the VM is moved to a host
> > with Intel NICs.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> as I am affected too, here is the link to the Ubuntu issue, just in
> case someone wants to have a look:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2098961
> 
> We're seeing lots of those in dmesg output:
> 
> [  561.505323] net_ratelimit: 1396 callbacks suppressed
> [  561.505339] ens18: bad gso: type: 4, size: 1448
> [  561.505343] ens18: bad gso: type: 4, size: 1448
> [  561.507270] ens18: bad gso: type: 4, size: 1448
> [  561.508257] ens18: bad gso: type: 4, size: 1448
> [  561.511432] ens18: bad gso: type: 4, size: 1448
> [  561.511452] ens18: bad gso: type: 4, size: 1448
> [  561.514719] ens18: bad gso: type: 4, size: 1448
> [  561.514966] ens18: bad gso: type: 4, size: 1448
> [  561.518553] ens18: bad gso: type: 4, size: 1448
> [  561.518781] ens18: bad gso: type: 4, size: 1448
> [  566.506044] net_ratelimit: 1363 callbacks suppressed
> 
> 
> And another interesting thing we observed - at least in our environment
> - that we can trigger that regression only with IPv4 traffic (bad
> performance and lots of bad gso messages) - if we only use IPv6, it
> does work (good performance and not one bad gso message).
> 
> kind regards
> 
> Torsten


I suspect it's something weird on the ubuntu hypervisor side,
supplying wrong checksum offsets.

Can you stick a printk here:
                if (skb_transport_offset(skb) < nh_min_len)
                        return -EINVAL;

printing, on error, all of: start, off, needed, nh_min_len.


Also, what kind of device is this? QEMU? vhost-user? vhost-net?
Thanks!

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MST