From: "Nélio Laranjeiro" <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
To: "Legacy, Allain" <Allain.Legacy@windriver.com>
Cc: "Adrien Mazarguil (adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com)"
<adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
"Peters, Matt" <Matt.Peters@windriver.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] mlx5 flow create/destroy behaviour
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:36:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170328153602.GC16796@autoinstall.dev.6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70A7408C6E1BFB41B192A929744D8523968F8E2F@ALA-MBC.corp.ad.wrs.com>
Hi Allain,
My attempt to reproduce it was a failure, may be I missed something,
please see below,
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:42:05PM +0000, Legacy, Allain wrote:
> Hi,
> I am setting up an experiment to gauge the usability of the flow API
> and the flow marking behavior of the CX4. I am working from v17.02.
> I am seeing some unpredictable behavior that I am unsure of the cause.
>
> This is the layout of the test:
>
> 2 x CX4 (15b3:1015)
> + 1 port used on each
> A test application with 1 core, and 1 queue/port
> Traffic generator attached to each port
> + 500 unique src+dst MAC address combinations sent from each port
> + All traffic is VLAN tagged (1 VLAN per port)
>
> The test application examines packets as they are received on each
> port. It sets up flow rules and calls rte_flow_create() for each new
> layer2 flow that it observes. The flow patterns are of the form
> ETH+VLAN+END where ETH matches src+dst+type=vlan, VLAN matches the
> port's VLAN ID. The flow actions are of the form MARK+QUEUE+END where
> MARK assigns a unique integer to each flow and, and QUEUE assigns the
> flow to queue_id=0 (since the test app only has 1 queue per port).
If I understand correctly, your application is adding 500 rules like:
flow create 0 ingress pattern eth src is <smac> dst is <dmac> / vlan vid is <vid> / end action mark id is <id> / queue index 0 / end
> Once the flows are setup, the application then checks that ingress
> packets are properly marked with the intended unique integer specified
> in the MARK action.
It is sending packets to verify this?
> The traffic is run for a short period of time and then stopped. Once
> the traffic is stopped the application removes the flow rules by
> calling rte_flow_destroy(). There is no guarantee that the order of
> the destroys resembles in any way the order of the creates. (I
> mention this because of this warning in rte_flow.h: "This function is
> only guaranteed to succeed if handles are destroyed in reverse order
> of their creation."). All of the calls to rte_flow_destroy()
> succeed.
>
> When I run this test after the NIC has been reset there are no issues.
What do you mean by "reset"?
> All calls to rte_flow_create()/rte_flow_destroy() succeed and all
> packets have a valid mark ID that corresponds to the unique integer
> assigned to that src+dst+vlan grouping.
In mlx5 PMD rte_flow_destroy() always returns success as the destruction
should never fail.
Can you compile in debug mode (by setting CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_DEBUG
to "y")? Then you should have as many print for the creation rules than
the destroyed ones.
> The problem happens when I run this test for a second or third time
> without first resetting the NIC. On subsequent test runs I still see
> no errors in create/destroy API calls but packets are no longer marked
> by the hardware. In some test runs none of the flows have valid mark
> id values, and other test runs have some percentage of flows with
> valid mark id values while others do not. The behavior seems
> inconsistent but if I reset the NIC the behavior goes back to working
> for 1 test run and then starts behaving incorrectly again on
> subsequent runs.
>
> I should note that in subsequent test runs the MAC addresses are the
> same as previous runs, and but the mapping from unique integer to
> src+dst+vlan are different each time.
>
> Is this behavior consistent with your experience using the device
> and/or API?
No I did not face such issue, the behavior was consistent, but I never
tried to generate so many rules in the past.
Thanks,
--
Nélio Laranjeiro
6WIND
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-28 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-28 12:42 Legacy, Allain
2017-03-28 15:36 ` Nélio Laranjeiro [this message]
2017-03-28 16:16 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-29 9:45 ` Nélio Laranjeiro
2017-03-29 12:29 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-30 13:03 ` Nélio Laranjeiro
2017-03-30 16:53 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-31 8:34 ` Nélio Laranjeiro
2017-03-31 13:16 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-31 13:34 ` Nélio Laranjeiro
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