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[Mick Gregg <mick.gregg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

With linux-hwe-generic-trusty we see kern.log entries for "TX driver
issue detected, PF reset issued" on a  NIC in a bond, followed by the
same interface going down and up again. After this time networking to
virtual machines bridged to that bond fails.

We see either asymmetric traffic, with ARP replies not reaching the VMs,
or no traffic at all to or from VMs.

In this context, these are nova-compute nodes using OpenvSwitch and KVM.

Reloading the i40e module corrects the networking.

Setting TCP Segmentation Offload off on the NICs seems to prevent the PF
reset, and we don't believe we have seen VM networking problems since
doing so.

# ethtool -i eth5
driver: i40e
version: 1.3.4-k
firmware-version: f4.33.31377 a1.2 n4.41 e1866
bus-info: 0000:04:00.1
supports-statistics: yes 
supports-test: yes 
supports-eeprom-access: yes 
supports-register-dump: yes 
supports-priv-flags: yes

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: canonical-bootstack

** Package changed: linux-lts-vivid (Ubuntu) => linux-meta (Ubuntu)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1540405

Title:
  i40e fails virtual networking

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  With linux-hwe-generic-trusty we see kern.log entries for "TX driver
  issue detected, PF reset issued" on a  NIC in a bond, followed by the
  same interface going down and up again. After this time networking to
  virtual machines bridged to that bond fails.

  We see either asymmetric traffic, with ARP replies not reaching the
  VMs, or no traffic at all to or from VMs.

  In this context, these are nova-compute nodes using OpenvSwitch and
  KVM.

  Reloading the i40e module corrects the networking.

  Setting TCP Segmentation Offload off on the NICs seems to prevent the
  PF reset, and we don't believe we have seen VM networking problems
  since doing so.

  # ethtool -i eth5
  driver: i40e
  version: 1.3.4-k
  firmware-version: f4.33.31377 a1.2 n4.41 e1866
  bus-info: 0000:04:00.1
  supports-statistics: yes 
  supports-test: yes 
  supports-eeprom-access: yes 
  supports-register-dump: yes 
  supports-priv-flags: yes

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