Bug ID 713093: Unexpected failovers when mirroring SR-IOV traffic over synthetic interfaces in VE

Last Modified: May 29, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP All(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 13.1.1.4, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 13.1.3.5, 13.1.3.6, 13.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 13.1.5, 13.1.5.1, 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, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4

Opened: Apr 02, 2018

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

On BIG-IP Virtual Edition, if a high rate of new connections are processed over SR-IOV interfaces and traffic mirroring is enabled over a path that uses an interface with lower throughput and higher latency (such as vmxnet3 or virtio), the HA channel may experience problems leading to unexpected failovers, or failure to mirror connections.

Impact

Unexpected failovers may occur due to memory pressure in the tmm, or failures to mirror connections.

Conditions

Virtual Edition HA pair with * High connections per second (will vary by size of instance) * Traffic is processed over SR-IOV interfaces * Traffic is mirrored over slower interfaces (vmxnet3 or virtio for example)

Workaround

Perform mirroring over a high performance path such as another SR-IOV interface.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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