Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 19:50:44 -0700 From: Navdeep Parhar <np@FreeBSD.org> To: "Foster, Greg" <gfoster@panasas.com> Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to Increase TX Queue Priority for LACP Packets Message-ID: <20200613025031.GA34653@x270> In-Reply-To: <BYAPR08MB6038FF630C3C8EEC4F11862BB4810@BYAPR08MB6038.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 11:47:41PM +0000, Foster, Greg wrote: > FreeBSD Networkers, > > We are seeing LACP port flapping on our FreeBSD 10.4/12.1 systems under > different conditions. > > Can someone explain or point me to the information on how to queue the > LACP packets to a higher priority queue ? > > We are using the Chelsio T580-LP-CR adapter/cxgbe driver. The Cheslio > NICs have 8 TX/RX queues each, but I don't know how to explicitly put > the LACP packets in the higher priority TX queue. > > I've read about PF/ALTQ and think this may be overkill our needs, and > was wondering if there was a simpler method. This is cxgbe specific but that's what you're using so it'll do. Add "hw.cxgbe.rsrv_noflowq=1" to your /boot/loader.conf. That reserves one tx queue for non-RSS traffic (like ARP, LACP). You might also want to increase the number of tx queues to compensate for the one that's now reserved. Use "hw.cxgbe.ntxq=9" for that. The ntxq knob might be different on 10.4 but the man page matching the driver should have its exact name. Regards, Navdeephome | help
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