Last Modified: Sep 14, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP MA-VE
Known Affected Versions:
14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 14.1.4.4, 14.1.4.5, 14.1.4.6, 14.1.5, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5.2, 14.1.5.3, 14.1.5.4, 14.1.5.6, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 15.1.4, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.0.1.2, 16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5
Fixed In:
17.1.0, 16.1.4, 15.1.9
Opened: Mar 10, 2021 Severity: 3-Major
Significant increase in CPU usage post-upgrade.
Significant increase in CPU usage, leading to potential degradation or disruption of traffic.
- Upgrading from version 13.x to a later version. - Configured BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) that uses the sock driver.
Create the following overrides: - In '/config/tmm_init.tcl' add or append the following: ndal mtu 1500 1137:0043 device driver vendor_dev 1137:0043 xnet - In '/config/xnet_init.tcl' add or append the following: device driver vendor_dev 1137:0043 dpdk Note: These overrides must be re-applied every time an upgrade is done.
Changed configuration to use DPDK-XNet as the default driver for Cisco eNIC.