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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@nvidia.com>, oulijun <oulijun@huawei.com>,
	"wenzhuo.lu@intel.com" <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>,
	"beilei.xing@intel.com" <beilei.xing@intel.com>,
	NBU-Contact-Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"linuxarm@huawei.com" <linuxarm@huawei.com>,
	Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] app/testpmd: fix the default RSS key configuration
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:53:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e6b854f2-31da-3372-fa2c-8dfa485a7311@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM5PR12MB1161722137AF490D90C8B37FDC020@DM5PR12MB1161.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>

On 10/16/2020 12:21 AM, Ophir Munk wrote:
>> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
>>>>> On 10/15/2020 1:41 PM, Lijun Ou wrote:
>>>>>> When start the testpmd, the pmd driver initializes the RSS
>>>>>> configuration. Generally, the recommended RSS hash key is used as
>>>>>> the default key in the driver. In addition, the default key is
>>>>>> different from the default RSS flow in testpmd without specifying
>>>>>> RSS hash key. So. if you do not specify the RSS key when creating
>>>>>> an RSS rule, the testpmd uses the default key as the default RSS
>>>>>> key of the RSS rule. As a result, you may mistakenly consider that
>>>>>> the RSS key in use is the valid default key of the NIC, actually,
>>>>>> the key and the valid default key of the NIC are two values.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Consider the follow usage with testpmd:
>>>>>> 1. first, startup testpmd:
>>>>>> testpmd> show port 0 rss-hash key
>>>>>> RSS functions:
>>>>>>     all ipv4-frag ipv4-other ipv6-frag ipv6-other ip RSS key:
>>>>>> -
>> 6D5A56DA255B0EC24167253D43A38FB0D0CA2BCBAE7B30B477CB2DA3803
>> 0F
>>>>>> -20C6A42B73BBEAC01FA
>>>>>> 2. create a rss rule
>>>>>> testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / ipv4 / udp / end
>>>>>> testpmd> actions rss \
>>>>>> types ipv4-udp end queues end / end
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 3. show rss-hash key
>>>>>> testpmd> show port 0 rss-hash key
>>>>>> RSS functions:
>>>>>>     all ipv4-udp udp
>>>>>> RSS key:
>>>>>> -
>> 74657374706D6427732064656661756C74205253532068617368206B65792C
>> 206F
>>>>>> -76657272696465
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In order to solve the above problems, it use the NIC valid default
>>>>>> RSS key instead of the testpmd dummy RSS key in the flow
>>>>>> configuration when the RSS key is not specified in the flow rule.
>>>>>> If the NIC RSS key is invalid, it will use testpmd dummy RSS key as the
>> default key.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fixes: ac8d22de2394 ("ethdev: flatten RSS configuration in flow
>>>>>> API")
>>>>>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Lijun Ou <oulijun@huawei.com>
>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang@arm.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> V4->V5:
>>>>>> -rewrite the commit log
>>>>>> -add reviewed-by
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Lijun,
>>>>>
>>>>> There were multiple other comments, it seems they are not addressed
>>>>> but only updated the commit log, can you please check comments to
>> prev versions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Before going into the details, my question was what happens if
>>>>> default key not provided at all?
>>>>> It seems this has been already tried by Ophir [1], later reverted
>>>>> back [2] bringing the initial issue back.
>>>>>
>>>>> According commit, the reason of revert is to support following
>> command:
>>>>> "flow create 0 <pattern> actions rss queues 0 1 end key_len 40 / end"
>>>>>
>>>>> @Ophir, @Lijun,
>>>>> Can we ignore the 'key_len' if the 'key' is not supported and solve
>>>>> current issue as initially intended ([1])?
>>>>>
>>>> Hi, Ferruh
>>>>     I have discussed with Phil Yang about the problem in [1]. I think
>>>> there may be other problems with the idea and there is no better
>>>> solution. and we need to remove key_len definition from rte_rss_conf
>>>> structure. They don't have a plan. And [1] was eventually reverted.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why ignoring 'key_len' (set it to zero) when there is no 'key'
>>> provided doesn't work?
>>>
>>
>> What do you think [1] + following update, will it work?
>>
>>    diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_flow.c b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_flow.c
>>    index ee4f3464fe..e7789c87b3 100644
>>    --- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_flow.c
>>    +++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_flow.c
>>    @@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ rte_flow_conv_action_conf(void *buf, const size_t
>> size,
>>                               }),
>>                               size > sizeof(*dst.rss) ? sizeof(*dst.rss) : size);
>>                    off = sizeof(*dst.rss);
>>    -               if (src.rss->key_len) {
>>    +               if (src.rss->key_len && src.rss->key) {
>>                            off = RTE_ALIGN_CEIL(off, sizeof(*dst.rss->key));
>>                            tmp = sizeof(*src.rss->key) * src.rss->key_len;
>>                            if (size >= off + tmp)
>>
> 
> Ferruh, your suggestion ([1] + update) looks correct. I also verified it on mlx5 PMD.
> Advantage: it's a generic fix for all dpdk applications using rte_flows (not just testpmd).
> It reduces code.
> With this fix the responsibility of handling key==NULL and/or len==0 is moved to the PMDs (which is good).
>   
> With regard to Lijun patch - I liked the approach of overriding the default testpmd key with the default PMD key.
> But it only addresses testpmd. More code was added.
> It seems OK to call rte_eth_dev_rss_hash_conf_get() as part of parsing RSS, but it would feel more confident if we could confirm it for all the PMDs (by testing) or at least review the PMDs rss_hash_conf_get() implementations.
> 

Lijun's idea can work. There was a problem in implementation related to the key 
size assumption, which can be fixed.

Even it is fixed, when user gives a rss rule without a key, we are getting key 
from device and feeding same key back to device, this is unnecessary I think.
When user didn't provide a key, rss rule shouldn't touch the key at all.

Complication was when user provides key_len without a key, I think both ignoring 
or returning error in this case is OK.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-15 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-10  1:51 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Lijun Ou
2020-09-22  9:51 ` Phil Yang
2020-09-22 13:50   ` oulijun
2020-09-22 15:44     ` Phil Yang
2020-09-24 13:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] RSS key use with testpmd Lijun Ou
2020-09-24 13:45   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] app/testpmd: fix the default RSS key configuration Lijun Ou
2020-09-29 15:35     ` Phil Yang
2020-09-30 12:57     ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-09 11:55       ` oulijun
2020-10-09 18:27         ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-09 18:54           ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-09-30 13:36     ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-09 11:59       ` oulijun
2020-10-09 18:36         ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-15 12:41     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Lijun Ou
2020-10-15 13:52       ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-15 14:04         ` oulijun
2020-10-15 14:43           ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-15 16:05             ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-15 23:21               ` Ophir Munk
2020-10-15 23:53                 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2020-10-16  0:14                   ` Ajit Khaparde
2020-10-16  6:46                   ` Ophir Munk
2020-10-16 10:05                     ` oulijun
2020-10-16 15:13                       ` Ophir Munk
2020-10-16 10:04                   ` oulijun
2020-10-16 10:57                     ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-16 14:59                       ` Ophir Munk
2020-10-20  9:00                       ` oulijun
2020-10-20 10:02                         ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-20 13:35                           ` oulijun
2020-10-20 14:34                             ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-21  8:19                               ` oulijun
2020-10-21  9:38                                 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-21 10:07                                   ` oulijun
     [not found]       ` <20201015195637.26476-1-robot@bytheb.org>
2020-10-16  9:39         ` [dpdk-dev] |WARNING| pw80899 " oulijun
2020-10-16  9:41           ` David Marchand
2020-09-30 13:17   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] RSS key use with testpmd Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-09 12:09     ` oulijun
2020-10-09 18:52       ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-10  3:07         ` Phil Yang
2020-10-14  6:15         ` oulijun
2020-10-14  8:41           ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-15 12:30 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] app/testpmd: fix the default RSS key configuration Lijun Ou

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