Latency issue in Bond0

Check the bond configuration on the linux server:

cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011)

Bonding Mode: transmit load balancing
Primary Slave: None
Currently Active Slave: eth10
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 0
Down Delay (ms): 0

Slave Interface: eth9
MII Status: up
Speed: 1000 Mbps
Duplex: full
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 6c:5b:e5:XX:1a:64
Slave queue ID: 0

Slave Interface: eth10
MII Status: up
Speed: 1000 Mbps
Duplex: full
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 6c:Xb:X5:aa:1c:61
Slave queue ID: 0

#check bonding configuration:

#-> cat /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-bond0

DEVICE='bond0'

BOOTPROTO=static

BROADCAST=

IPADDR=XX.XX.AA.VV/23

NETWORK=

STARTMODE=auto

USERCONTROL=no

#LLADDR=

#ETHTOOL_OPTIONS=

BONDING_MASTER=yes

BONDING_MODULE_OPTS='miimon=100 mode=5'

BONDING_SLAVE0='eth9'

BONDING_SLAVE1='eth10'

#check for packet dropped on NIC
 for x in $(seq 1 20); do ip -s link show dev eth9 | grep -A1 'RX.*dropped'; sleep 2; done
 for x in $(seq 1 20); do ip -s link show dev eth10 | grep -A1 'RX.*dropped'; sleep 2; done

#->  for x in $(seq 1 20); do ip -s link show dev eth9 | grep -A1 'RX.*dropped'; sleep 2; done
    RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped overrun mcast
    1662600144 24960287 150     67145216 0       0
    RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped overrun mcast
    1662601168 24960302 150     67145223 0       0
    RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped overrun mcast
    1662601584 24960308 150     67145233 0       0
    RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped overrun mcast
    1662602246 24960318 150     67145244 0       0
    RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped overrun mcast
    1662603078 24960331 150     67145262 0       0

Resolution :

1. Reset the card with ifenslave
2. Reseat the blade into enclosure
3. Bond0 can be breaked to monitor the packat drops.