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When BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) is running on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with mergeable buffers enabled, tmm might core while passing traffic. Subsequently, the kernel locks up, which prevents the whole system from recovering. TMM panic with this message in a tmm log file: panic: ../dev/ndal/virtio/if_virtio.c:2038: Assertion "Valid num_buffers" failed.
Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.
-- VE running on GCP. -- Mergeable buffers (mrg_rxbuf) is enabled on the guest with direct descriptors.
You can use either of the following workarounds: -- Use the sock driver. For more information see K10142141: Configuring the BIG-IP VE system to use the SOCK network driver :: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K10142141 -- Request an Engineering Hotfix from F5, with mrg_rxbuf and lro turned off. Note: Using either workaround has a performance impact.
- Added error handling to prevent crashing when a bad packet gets received - Added a new column 'invalid_header' into tmm/virtio_rx_stats table to track incidents
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