ETH_RSS_NONFRAG_IPV4_UDP with netvsc, and memory setup for mlx4

ETH_RSS_NONFRAG_IPV4_UDP with netvsc, and memory setup for mlx4

[Sylvain Vasseur]

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Hello,

I have been trying to use the netvsc PMD driver lately and face an issue
with the RSS flag for UDP.
I figured that this is because the PMD does not handle NDIS_HASH_UDP_IPV4,
so I am planning at trying to submit a change to the PMD, however I am
unsure about the value of the UDP constant. I found on
https://microsoft.github.io/windows-docs-rs/doc/windows/Win32/NetworkManagement/Ndis/constant.NDIS_HASH_UDP_IPV4.html
that it should be 0x00004000.
Would someone have some proper knowledge about this specific setting?

And after having used that change locally, I am now facing some issues with
the mlx4 PMD used under the hood of netvsc. My memory allocation makes my
buffers exist at a different location than my memory pool and this creates
an issue:
net_mlx4: port 0 unable to find virtually contiguous chunk for address
Did someone already tried to use some custom memory management with the mlx
pmd?

Thanks,
Sylvain

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Re: ETH_RSS_NONFRAG_IPV4_UDP with netvsc, and memory setup for mlx4

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 12 May 2022 19:09:19 +0100
Sylvain Vasseur <remmog@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have been trying to use the netvsc PMD driver lately and face an issue
> with the RSS flag for UDP.
> I figured that this is because the PMD does not handle NDIS_HASH_UDP_IPV4,
> so I am planning at trying to submit a change to the PMD, however I am
> unsure about the value of the UDP constant. I found on
> https://microsoft.github.io/windows-docs-rs/doc/windows/Win32/NetworkManagement/Ndis/constant.NDIS_HASH_UDP_IPV4.html
> that it should be 0x00004000.
> Would someone have some proper knowledge about this specific setting?
> 
> And after having used that change locally, I am now facing some issues with
> the mlx4 PMD used under the hood of netvsc. My memory allocation makes my
> buffers exist at a different location than my memory pool and this creates
> an issue:
> net_mlx4: port 0 unable to find virtually contiguous chunk for address
> Did someone already tried to use some custom memory management with the mlx
> pmd?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sylvain

It should be able to do UDP hash (for non-fragmented packets only).

Look at FreeBSD:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/sys/dev/hyperv/netvsc

And Linux kernel:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/hyperv/rndis_filter.c

The Linux driver is the definitive source.
The FreeBSD driver is where netvsc PMD was derived from.