Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:42:25 +1000 From: Paul Koch <paul.koch@akips.com> To: Sepherosa Ziehau <sephe@freebsd.org> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Hongjiang Zhang <honzhan@microsoft.com> Subject: Re: 11.1 running on HyperV hn interface hangs Message-ID: <20170929154225.6a187f47@akips.com> In-Reply-To: <CAMOc5cwmQS=bLAe0fZYWpViMSRH5_ZbJumuezkbwRH=H_tgSFw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20170906193309.796c79ed@akips.com> <3f96c7d0-4fbd-26cb-5c84-8868d12eb427@ingresso.co.uk> <14997bba-aac2-947b-9b78-04af41ea29b0@freebsd.org> <CAMOc5cxQp1P3WnDf=Hgo8X0LmQfjCTowO=ya8VsWhu4cdTeajQ@mail.gmail.com> <20170907150711.025e4e41@akips.com> <CAMOc5cx-dES8ABM8oNNKfT50ZUebVtpkKJn9Vtc_nQrRQ2vHgQ@mail.gmail.com> <20170908010400.0fb81bc4@akips.com> <CAMOc5cwG=NGeyVt2DwTujKMwsTzfM-6NvSXmQR8rzetVHMYUiw@mail.gmail.com> <20170929143659.7fe1a4f6@akips.com> <CAMOc5cwmQS=bLAe0fZYWpViMSRH5_ZbJumuezkbwRH=H_tgSFw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:31:22 +0800 Sepherosa Ziehau <sephe@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Paul Koch <paul.koch@akips.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:54:56 +0800 > > Sepherosa Ziehau <sephe@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > >> If you have any updates on this, please let me know. There is still > >> time for 10.4. > > > > We are still playing around with this in the lab... > > > > Running similar setup as the customer > > Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacentre (6.3.9600) Revision 16384 > > Hyper-V 2012 > > > > Two VM guests > > - 11.0-RELEASE > > - 11.1-p1 > > > > We can not get the Hyper-V hn interface to lock up like the customer can > > though. > > > > We can get the VMs to hang/stall regularly if the guests run ntpd - approx > > every 15 mins, but no real obvious pattern to it. Disabling ntpd fixes > > it. > > Hmm, by ntpd I think you mean ntp client? You will have to disable > timesync if you run ntp client: > sysctl hw.hvtimesync.sample_thresh=-1 > sysctl hw.hvtimesync.ignore_sync=1 > > They interfere w/ each other. > > Or do you mean the network hanging triggered by "RXBUF ack failed"? > > Thanks, > sephe Yes, ntp client running on the VM guest. After finding it was unstable, we concluded that there must be some type of interference. Best that we automatically force ntp off when our software detects it is running in Hyper-V. We haven't been able to trigger the hn to hang like our customer can with the RXBUF problem though. Different underlying hardware probably. Paul. -- Paul Koch | Founder | CEO AKIPS Network Monitor | akips.com Brisbane, Australia
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