Re: [dpdk-dev] Redirection Table

[Stefan Baranoff <sbaranoff@gmail.com>]

All,

Does this mean that an application looking at traffic in something like an
IP/IP or GRE tunnel with only two endpoints on the tunnels but many clients
behind them must do software load balancing as the packets would IP only
(not TCP/UDP) with the same two addresses?

How much of a penalty is there for crossing processor boundaries in that
case and might a 1 CPU server, while less core dense, actually give better
performance/watt?

Thanks,
Stefan

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On Jan 7, 2014 3:36 AM, "Ivan Boule" <ivan.boule@6wind.com> wrote:

> On 01/06/2014 05:52 PM, Michael Quicquaro wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the details.  Can the hash function be modified so that I can
>> provide my own RSS function?  i.e.  my ultimate goal is to provide RSS that
>> is not dependent on packet contents.
>>
> No, the RSS function is "hard-wired" and only works on IPv4/IPv6 packets.
> All other packets are stored in the same queue (0 by default).
> You can change the RSS key used by the RSS function to compute the hash
> value.
> See the following testpmd command:
>
>    port config X rss-hash-key <80 hexa digits>
>
> to set the 320-bit RSS key of port X.
>
> Best regards,
> Ivan
>
>  You may have seen my thread "generic load balancing".  At this point, I'm
>> realizing that the only way to accomplish this is to let the packets land
>> where they may (the queue where the NIC places the packet) and distribute
>> them (to other queues) by having some of the CPU processing devoted to this
>> task.  Can you verify this?
>>
>> Regards,
>> - Michael.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Ivan Boule <ivan.boule@6wind.com<mailto:
>> ivan.boule@6wind.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 12/31/2013 08:45 PM, Michael Quicquaro wrote:
>>
>>         Has anyone used the "port config all reta (hash,queue)"
>>         command of testpmd
>>         with any success?
>>
>>         I haven't found much documentation on it.
>>
>>         Can someone provide an example on why and how it was used.
>>
>>         Regards and Happy New Year,
>>         Michael Quicquaro
>>
>>     Hi Michael,
>>
>>     "RETA" stands for Redirection Table.
>>     It is a per-port configurable table of 128 entries that is used by the
>>     RSS filtering feature of Intel 1GbE and 10GbE controllers to
>>     select the
>>     RX queue into which to store a received IP packet.
>>     When receiving an IPv4/IPv6 packet, the controller computes a 32-bit
>>     hash on:
>>
>>       * the source address and the destination address of the IP header of
>>         the packet,
>>       * the source port and the destination port of the UDP/TCP
>>     header, if any.
>>
>>     Then, the controller takes the 7 lower bits of the RSS hash as an
>>     index
>>     into the RETA table to get the RX queue number where to store the
>>     packet.
>>
>>     The API of the DPDK includes a function that is exported by Poll Mode
>>     Drivers to configure RETA entries of a given port.
>>
>>     For test purposes, the testpmd application includes the following
>>     command
>>
>>         "port config X rss reta (hash,queue)[,(hash,queue)]"
>>
>>     to configure RETA entries of a port X, with each couple (hash,queue)
>>     contains the index of a RETA entry (between 0 and 127 included)
>>     and the
>>     RX queue number (between 0 and 15) to be stored into that RETA entry.
>>
>>     Best regards
>>     Ivan
>>
>>     --     Ivan Boule
>>     6WIND Development Engineer
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Ivan Boule
> 6WIND Development Engineer
>
>