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Bug 859882 - Current default TX offload settings lead to low performance on guests from Windows server 2008 and up
Summary: Current default TX offload settings lead to low performance on guests from Wi...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: virtio-win
Version: 6.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Windows
unspecified
urgent
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Dmitry Fleytman
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-09-24 09:39 UTC by Yvugenfi@redhat.com
Modified: 2013-05-28 05:48 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-02-21 10:40:50 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2013:0441 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE virtio-win bug fix and enhancement update 2013-02-20 20:48:13 UTC

Description Yvugenfi@redhat.com 2012-09-24 09:39:20 UTC 
Description of problem:
Current default offload setting on Windows include both IP checksum and TCP\UDP checksum offload. It is done in order to pass HCK tests on variety of OSes (this default is a requirement for HCK). 
Such setting wasn't required on the previous test kit - WLK 1.6. Also in this case IP checksum is calculated by the driver anyway as virtio header cannot contain information need to calculate two checksums for one packet.

In some cases Windows will not only set checksum in IP header but also will not indicate packet size in the header. In those cases driver will fail to calculate the checksum and the performance will be badly effected.

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Comment 1 Yvugenfi@redhat.com 2012-09-24 09:44:11 UTC 
This is a regression from previous versions.
Comment 2 Yvugenfi@redhat.com 2012-09-27 16:21:15 UTC 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff568840(v=vs.85).aspx
 
Although the MSDN clearly states that the TCPIP stack fills the length in IP header, it seems the MSFT decided to ignore this statement (possible, for LSO V2) because the packet will be fragmented anyway, so they think the HW does not need this field and they expect us to use the length value in NET_BUFFER struct.
We are going to populate the length anyway.
Comment 3 Yvugenfi@redhat.com 2012-09-30 12:02:47 UTC 
http://git.engineering.redhat.com/?p=users/yvugenfi/internal-kvm-guest-drivers-windows/.git;a=commit;h=69639eb0b0891b502c4d6113fa3e5fb3401eeb32
Comment 4 Yvugenfi@redhat.com 2012-10-02 09:04:56 UTC 
Build 39.
Comment 5 Mike Cao 2012-10-12 08:01:45 UTC 
dengmin ,pls run netkvm whql test for win2k8 to verify this bug 


Thanks,
Mike
Comment 9 Mike Cao 2012-10-23 05:10:56 UTC 
Based on comment #7 and comment #8 move status to verified.
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 10:40:50 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0441.html
Comment 11 Gordon Messmer 2013-05-28 02:14:07 UTC 
The drivers included in the virtio-win ISO don't appear to have been updated.  Where can we get the current version of the driver?

/var/lib/libvirt/images/virtio-win-0.1-49.iso
                         57240     57240         0 100% /mnt/disc1
/var/lib/libvirt/images/virtio-win-1.6.4.iso
                         85418     85418         0 100% /mnt/disc2

51f50a8f1967ae50c279d7c4d18ba5fe  disc1/win7/amd64/netkvm.sys
51f50a8f1967ae50c279d7c4d18ba5fe  disc2/NetKVM/2k8R2/amd64/netkvm.sys
51f50a8f1967ae50c279d7c4d18ba5fe  disc2/NetKVM/w7/amd64/netkvm.sys
Comment 12 Gordon Messmer 2013-05-28 05:48:52 UTC 
I apologize, I was working on the impression that the former ISO was obtained through RHEL channels, but I may be mistaken.

Using driver NetKVM driver 61.64.104.4900 on 2k8R2, we see gigabit throughput on UDP (e.g. CIFS) but only about 3Mbps on TCP flows.  I thought that might have been due to this bug.  I'll continue to gather information and submit a new bug.
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