Hi Dmitry,

Thank you for your helpful reply.

> Try enabling "Explicit Tx rule" mode if possible.
> I was able to achieve 137 Mpps @ 64B with the following command:
>
> dpdk-testpmd -a 21:00.0 -a c1:00.0 --in-memory -- \
>      -i --rxq=1 --txq=1 --hairpinq=8 --hairpin-mode=0x10

Based o this I was able to achieve 142 Mpps(96.08 Gbps) @ 64B with the following command:

sudo dpdk-testpmd -l 0-1 -n 4 -a 0000:c4:00.0,hp_buf_log_sz=13 \
     --in-memory -- --rxq=1 --txq=1 --hairpinq=12 --hairpin-mode=0x10 -i
     
flow create 0 ingress pattern eth src is 00:10:94:00:00:02 / end actions rss queues 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 end / end

Almost full speed :).
Any other value of "hp_buf_log_sz" or more queues does not get better results, but instead makes them worse.

> RxQ pinned in device memory requires firmware configuration [1]:
>
> mlxconfig -y -d $pci_addr set MEMIC_SIZE_LIMIT=0 HAIRPIN_DATA_BUFFER_LOCK=1
> mlxfwreset -y -d $pci_addr reset
>
> [1]:https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/platform/mlx5.html?highlight=hairpin_data_buffer_lock
>
> However, pinned RxQ didn't improve anything for me.

I tried it, but it didn't improve anything for me either.

Mário

On 25/06/2024 02:22,  Kozlyuk wrote:
> Hi Mário,
>
> 2024-06-19 08:45 (UTC+0200), Mário Kuka:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to use hairpin queues to forward high priority traffic (such as
>> LACP).
>> My goal is to ensure that this traffic is not dropped in case the
>> software pipeline is overwhelmed.
>> But during testing with dpdk-testpmd I can't achieve full throughput for
>> hairpin queues.
> For maintainers: I'd like to express interest in this use case too.
>
>> The best result I have been able to achieve for 64B packets is 83 Gbps
>> in this configuration:
>> $ sudo dpdk-testpmd -l 0-1 -n 4 -a 0000:17:00.0,hp_buf_log_sz=19 --
>> --rxq=1 --txq=1 --rxd=4096 --txd=4096 --hairpinq=2
>> testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth src is 00:10:94:00:00:03 /
>> end actions rss queues 1 2 end / end
> Try enabling "Explicit Tx rule" mode if possible.
> I was able to achieve 137 Mpps @ 64B with the following command:
>
> dpdk-testpmd -a 21:00.0 -a c1:00.0 --in-memory -- \
>      -i --rxq=1 --txq=1 --hairpinq=8 --hairpin-mode=0x10
>
> You might get even better speed, because my flow rules were more complicated
> (RTE Flow based "router on-a-stick"):
>
> flow create 0 ingress group 1 pattern eth / vlan vid is 721 / end actions of_set_vlan_vid vlan_vid 722 / rss queues 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 end / end
> flow create 1 ingress group 1 pattern eth / vlan vid is 721 / end actions of_set_vlan_vid vlan_vid 722 / rss queues 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 end / end
> flow create 0 ingress group 1 pattern eth / vlan vid is 722 / end actions of_set_vlan_vid vlan_vid 721 / rss queues 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 end / end
> flow create 1 ingress group 1 pattern eth / vlan vid is 722 / end actions of_set_vlan_vid vlan_vid 721 / rss queues 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 end / end
> flow create 0 ingress group 0 pattern end actions jump group 1 / end
> flow create 1 ingress group 0 pattern end actions jump group 1 / end
>
>> For packets in the range 68-80B I measured even lower throughput.
>> Full throughput I measured only from packets larger than 112B
>>
>> For only one queue, I didn't get more than 55Gbps:
>> $ sudo dpdk-testpmd -l 0-1 -n 4 -a 0000:17:00.0,hp_buf_log_sz=19 --
>> --rxq=1 --txq=1 --rxd=4096 --txd=4096 --hairpinq=1 -i
>> testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth src is 00:10:94:00:00:03 /
>> end actions queue index 1 / end
>>
>> I tried to use locked device memory for TX and RX queues, but it seems
>> that this is not supported:
>> "--hairpin-mode=0x011000" (bit 16 - hairpin TX queues will use locked
>> device memory, bit 12 - hairpin RX queues will use locked device memory)
> RxQ pinned in device memory requires firmware configuration [1]:
>
> mlxconfig -y -d $pci_addr set MEMIC_SIZE_LIMIT=0 HAIRPIN_DATA_BUFFER_LOCK=1
> mlxfwreset -y -d $pci_addr reset
>
> [1]:https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/platform/mlx5.html?highlight=hairpin_data_buffer_lock
>
> However, pinned RxQ didn't improve anything for me.
>
> TxQ pinned in device memory is not supported by net/mlx5.
> TxQ pinned to DPDK memory made performance awful (predictably).
>
>> I was expecting that achieving full throughput with hairpin queues would
>> not be a problem.
>> Is my expectation too optimistic?
>>
>> What other parameters besides 'hp_buf_log_sz' can I use to achieve full
>> throughput?
> In my experiments, default "hp_buf_log_sz" of 16 is optimal.
> The most influential parameter appears to be the number of hairpin queues.
>
>> I tried combining the following parameters: mprq_en=, rxqs_min_mprq=,
>> mprq_log_stride_num=, txq_inline_mpw=, rxq_pkt_pad_en=,
>> but with no positive impact on throughput.