Neutron GRE模式要注意的问题

GRE模式下，如果MTU和Offloading配置不当，会严重降低网络性能（https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/6140/quantum-neutron-gre-slow-performance/）。

RDO推荐以下的配置（http://openstack.redhat.com/Using_GRE_tenant_networks）：

MTU

When using GRE, set the MTU in the Guest to 1400, this will allow for the GRE header and no packet fragmentation.

Hint: if you want to check if this answer will solve your issue, execute ifconfig eth0 mtu 1400  on the instance and check the speed.

Edit the file: /etc/neutrondhcp_agent.ini （老版：/etc/quantum/dhcp_agent.ini）  and set:

dnsmasq_config_file=/etc/neutron/dnsmasq-neutron.conf

Create and edit file /etc/neutron/dnsmasq-neutron.conf  and put this inside:

dhcp-option-force=26,1400

Restart DHCP:

service neutron-dhcp-agent restart

And reboot your instance. Verify that your MTU is 1400:

 root@web:~# ifconfig eth0      Link
 encap:Ethernet HWaddr fa:16:3e:f0:6a:9f inet addr:10.1.0.2 Bcast:10.1.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::f816:3eff:fef0:6a9f/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST **MTU:1400** Metric:1 RX packets:934855 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:207741 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1210256390 (1.2 GB) TX bytes:226172592 (226.1 MB)

事实上，mtu只需要修改到1454即可：dhcp-option-force=26,1454

Offloading

You should turn offloading such as TSO/LRO and GRO/GSO off on the instance physical machine for traffic to work.

This can be done with this command (replace ethX with your physical network interface name):

ethtool -K ethX tso off lro off gro off gso off

You can modify the network script for this change to apply on startup:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
ETHTOOL_OPTS="-K ${DEVICE}  tso off lro off gro off gso off"

后记：该选项在网络节点安装，如果不设置该项，那么在openstack中安装好的实例中，敲入命令就会卡死。