Very high latency with Intel i226-v NICs

Feb 23, 2022
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G'day

Since we started dist-upgrading multiple PVE single node instances from 8 to 9 (various kernel versions), we noticed the Intel i226-v NIC's experiencing very high latency (15-1000 ms). On PVE version 8 we did not experience any latency with these NIC's
We ruled out the possibility of being a external networking issue by testing with multiple different setups (servers switches firewalls).
Our current test setup were this issue occurs:
  • 6.17.9-1-pve
  • pve-manager/9.1.6
  • Supermicro X13SCW-F motherboard with Intel Xeon E-2488 CPU
  • I226-T4 Quad 2.5G RJ45 PCI Card
  • Debian 12 VM with qemu-guest-tools enabled and installed (net0: virtio,bridge=vmbr1)
These NIC's are configured to be part of a group which is being used by the VM's where we notice this issue:
Code:
auto vmbr1
iface vmbr1 inet static
        bridge-ports enp8s0 enp9s0 enp10s0 enp11s0
        bridge-stp off
        bridge-fd 0
        bridge-vlan-aware yes
        bridge-vids 2-4094
Note that only one of these ports is currently up.

Any input on resolving this issue would mean a lot to us.