Last Modified: Apr 24, 2024
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 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, 15.1.9, 15.1.9.1, 15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 15.1.10.4, 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, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2, 16.1.4.3, 17.0.0, 17.0.0.1, 17.0.0.2
Opened: Jan 10, 2019 Severity: 3-Major
Jumbo frames are disabled by default for Mellanox ConnectX-4 and ConnectX-5 devices using the mlxvf5 driver (i.e., many BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) configurations). Packets larger than 1500 bytes are silently dropped. Only packets up to 1500 bytes are supported when jumbo framers are disabled.
Packets larger than 1500 bytes are dropped without a warning.
BIG-IP VE with SR-IOV using Mellanox ConnectX-4 or ConnectX-5 NICs. Typically this represents VE configurations running on private Cloud environments such as VMware, KVM, OpenStack, and others. Note: You can determine your environment by running the following commands: # tmctl -d blade tmm/device_probed # tmctl -d blade xnet/device_probed Configurations exhibiting this issue either: 1. reports a value of 'mlxvf5' in the driver_in_use column in tmm/device_probed, and possibly reports 'tmctl: xnet/device_probed: No such table.' 2. reports a value of 'xnet' in the driver_in_use column in tmm/device_probed, and a value of 'mlxvf5' in the driver_in_use column in xnet/device_probed.
Enable jumbo frames and then restart tmm. 1. Add the following line to /config/xnet_init.tcl: drvcfg mlxvf5 jumbo_support 1 2. Restart tmm: bigstart restart tmm Important: There are two possible mlxvf5 drivers. It is possible to enable jumbo frames only for the xnet-based driver. Important: Enabling jumbo frames causes a performance loss for 1500-byte-size packet, but offers higher throughput at lower CPU usage for larger packets. Note that 1500 bytes is the most common size for internet packets.
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