Bug ID 1926869: Performance may be degraded when using PVA acceleration to apps on the same chassis as TMM.

Last Modified: Jul 28, 2026

Affected Product(s):
BIG_IP_NEXT(BNK) BNK(all modules)

Fixed In:
2.3.0

Opened: Apr 14, 2025

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When running BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes on a Bluefield-3 DPU, and enabling PVA Acceleration of flows, traffic destined for apps running on the host in the same chassis as the DPU with TMM may see up to 50% less throughput when compared to traffic destined for apps on other nodes in the cluster.

Impact

Up to 50% degradation in throughput.

Conditions

PVA acceleration enabled, BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes running on Bluefield-3 DPU, Apps running on host CPU are in the same chassis as TMM.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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