Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: many rx packets dropped since 2.6.37 | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:46:15 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 14:34 +0200, Chris wrote:
> Are you sure that these packets are really dropped? I see a lot of > more packets dropped with virtio_net instead of e1000. (KVM > environments) >
Yep, we are sure packets are dropped, just read the patch and you'll can see this.
> Why do we see dropped packets only in virtual environments and bonded > network interfaces and not on real network interfaces?
This has to be investigated, eventually.
About the bond, if you are in active-backup mode, a frame coming to inactive device is going to be dropped, or you could have duplication of logical frames.
You can use tcpdump to get a copy of these frames.
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