Symptom
Input discards seen after issu upgrade to 7.3/8.x code. Input discards will be seen for packet coming in through any port in the box and going out through F3-100 gig or F3-40 gig port.
Conditions
1. ISSU to 7.3.x code or 8.x code
2. Presence of F3-100gig and F3-40 gig line card in chassis.
3. packet drop will be seen only when F3-100gig or F3-40gig line card is at the egress path of the packet
Workaround
system switchover
Further Problem Description
To check the credit on 100G F3 card below commands can be used,
N7K-1(config-if)# sh ha int arbiter inst 0 table module 3 max-credit-avail-ldi-cl
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| QCR2 max credit config per LDI/CL (physical layout) for Lightning
| Inst 0
|
Max credit config per LDI/CL for pg 3
LDI CL Max dedicated credits Total credits avail
----- ---- ----------------------- ---------------------
0 0 80 80
0 1 80 80 <<<<< this is for working case
0 2 80 80
0 3 80 80
0 4 80 80
0 5 80 80
0 6 80 80
0 7 80 80
above output is for a "working" 100gig port, for working 40gig port this value will be 32. For non-working 100gig/40gig port this value will be 8.