[pve-devel] [PATCH-SERIE ifupdown2/common] disable rx-vlan-filter on iface in vlan-aware-bridge

[Alexandre Derumier]

Hi,

Some nics like mellanox connect-x  or intel i40e don't work with vlan-aware-bridge
when too many vlans are defined.
Depend of the model, connectx-3 is limited to 64 vlans, connect-x4 to 128vlans
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-7-and-mellanox-connectx4-and-vlan-aware-bridge.104926/#post-555269

i40e seem to throw errors like
Jan 18 14:44:27 jupiter kernel: [ 145.060365] i40e 0000:3d:00.0: Error I40E_AQ_RC_ENOSPC, forcing overflow promiscuous on PF
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/error-i40e_aq_rc_enospc-forcing-overflow-promiscuous-on-pf.62875/
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-8-and-i40e-driver-kernel-6-2.129364/

rx-vlan-filter is only a protection to drop packets with unknown vlan at nic level.
(not related to vlan offloading, where nic can support any number of vlan)

When vlan-aware is enabled, bridge is already doing the vlan filtering, so it's pretty safe to disable it.
(AFAIK, it was not enabled on proxmox 5, as I didn't have mellanox problem at this time)

This patch serie add support to ifupdown2 to "rx-vlan-filter" and add ethtool as depend
and rx-vlan-filter is added to /etc/network/interfaces on phys nic if the nic is port of vlan aware bridge.
(or slave of bond port of vlan-aware-bridge)

fix:
https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2329
https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3893

(maybe they are other related bug reports)


ifupdown2:

Alexandre Derumier (2):
  add ethtool as depend
  patch: ethtool: add rx-vlan-filter support

 debian/control                                |  4 +-
 debian/patches/series                         |  1 +
 ...01-addons-ethtool-add-rx-vlan-filter.patch | 43 +++++++++++++++++++
 ifupdown2                                     |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 debian/patches/upstream/0001-addons-ethtool-add-rx-vlan-filter.patch

pve-common:

Alexandre Derumier (1):
  network_interfaces: disable rx-vlan-filter for physical interfaces
    ports of a vlan-aware bridge

 src/PVE/INotify.pm | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)


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