netdev - Re: Fw: [Bug 201423] New: eth0: hw csum failure

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Date:   Wed, 31 Oct 2018 05:08:49 +0100
From:   Andre Tomt <andre@...t.net>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, rossi.f@...ind.it,
        Dimitris Michailidis <dmichail@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: [Bug 201423] New: eth0: hw csum failure

On 30.10.2018 12:04, Andre Tomt wrote:
> On 30.10.2018 11:58, Andre Tomt wrote:
>> On 27.10.2018 23:41, Andre Tomt wrote:
>>> On 26.10.2018 13:45, Andre Tomt wrote:
>>>> On 25.10.2018 19:38, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/24/2018 12:41 PM, Andre Tomt wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It eventually showed up again with mlx4, on 4.18.16 + fix and also 
>>>>>> on 4.19. I still do not have a useful packet capture.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is running a torrent client serving up various linux 
>>>>>> distributions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you also applied this fix ?
>>>>>
>>>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=db4f1be3ca9b0ef7330763d07bf4ace83ad6f913 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No. I've applied it now to 4.19 and will report back if anything 
>>>> shows up.
>>>
>>> Just hit it on the simpler server; no VRF, no tunnels, no 
>>> nat/conntrack. Only a basic stateless nftables ruleset and a vlan 
>>> netdev (unlikely to be the one triggering this I guess; it has only 
>>> v4 traffic).
>>
>> I'm currently testing 4.19 with the recomended commit added, plus 
>> these to sort out some GRO issues (on a hunch, unsure if related):
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=a8305bff685252e80b7c60f4f5e7dd2e63e38218 
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=992cba7e276d438ac8b0a8c17b147b37c8c286f7 
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=ece23711dd956cd5053c9cb03e9fe0668f9c8894 
>>
>>
>> and I *think* it is behaving better now? it's not conclusive as it 
>> could take a while to trip in this environment but some of the test 
>> servers have not shown anything bad in almost 24h.
> 
> Sorry, s/some of the/none of the

I think it is fairly safe to say 4.19 + mlx4 + these 4 commits is OK. At 
least for my workload. Servers are now 51-61 hours in, no splats. I also 
added ntp pool traffic to one of them to make things a little more exciting.

Not sure what is needed for 4.18, I dont have the mental bandwidth to 
test that right now. Also no idea about the similar looking mlx5 splats 
reported elsewhere.