[dpdk-users] mlx5 PMD fails to receive certain icmpv6 multicast

[dpdk-users] mlx5 PMD fails to receive certain icmpv6 multicast

[Liwu Liu]

Hi Team,

I am using the mlx5/100G in KVM guest. The host shows this PCI vfNIC is provisioned to the guest:
      "17:01.1 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27800 Family [ConnectX-5 Virtual Function]"

I am using DPDK 19.11 with kind of standard configurations, and when DPDK application runs I still have the kernel mlx5e net device present. I have both promiscuous and all-multicast turned on.

It works fine for IPV4, but for IPV6 it fails. It can receive packets destined to 33:33:00:00:00:02 (IPV6 Router solicitation), but cannot receive packets destined to 33:33:ff:00:00:01 (IPV6 neighbor solicitation for some address).

But if I avoid DPDK, directly use the OFED-4.6 based kernel driver, everything works fine as expected.

I am thinking there is some mismatch happened for MLX5 PMD. Please give some advice/hints.

Many thanks

Liwu




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Re: [dpdk-users] mlx5 PMD fails to receive certain icmpv6 multicast

[Thomas Monjalon]

06/03/2020 01:45, Liwu Liu:
> Hi Team,
> 
> I am using the mlx5/100G in KVM guest. The host shows this PCI vfNIC is provisioned to the guest:
>       "17:01.1 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27800 Family [ConnectX-5 Virtual Function]"
> 
> I am using DPDK 19.11 with kind of standard configurations, and when DPDK application runs I still have the kernel mlx5e net device present. I have both promiscuous and all-multicast turned on.
> 
> It works fine for IPV4, but for IPV6 it fails. It can receive packets destined to 33:33:00:00:00:02 (IPV6 Router solicitation), but cannot receive packets destined to 33:33:ff:00:00:01 (IPV6 neighbor solicitation for some address).
> 
> But if I avoid DPDK, directly use the OFED-4.6 based kernel driver, everything works fine as expected.
> 
> I am thinking there is some mismatch happened for MLX5 PMD. Please give some advice/hints.

Adding Mellanox engineers in Cc list for help.

Re: [dpdk-users] mlx5 PMD fails to receive certain icmpv6 multicast

[Thomas Monjalon]

26/03/2020 22:11, Thomas Monjalon:
> 06/03/2020 01:45, Liwu Liu:
> > Hi Team,
> > 
> > I am using the mlx5/100G in KVM guest. The host shows this PCI vfNIC is provisioned to the guest:
> >       "17:01.1 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27800 Family [ConnectX-5 Virtual Function]"
> > 
> > I am using DPDK 19.11 with kind of standard configurations, and when DPDK application runs I still have the kernel mlx5e net device present. I have both promiscuous and all-multicast turned on.
> > 
> > It works fine for IPV4, but for IPV6 it fails. It can receive packets destined to 33:33:00:00:00:02 (IPV6 Router solicitation), but cannot receive packets destined to 33:33:ff:00:00:01 (IPV6 neighbor solicitation for some address).
> > 
> > But if I avoid DPDK, directly use the OFED-4.6 based kernel driver, everything works fine as expected.
> > 
> > I am thinking there is some mismatch happened for MLX5 PMD. Please give some advice/hints.
> 
> Adding Mellanox engineers in Cc list for help.

Any update to share please?

Re: [dpdk-users] mlx5 PMD fails to receive certain icmpv6 multicast

[Liwu Liu]

Hi Team,
   I did some test today for "trusted off" vfNIC.
   We use to enable (multi-unicast) promiscuous mode for vfNIC---it has no use if the vfNIC is not in trusted (super user) mode. But it masks out secondary mac address addition.
   IF I turn off promiscuous mode for vfNCI, adding secondary mac then works.

+#if 1
+    struct rte_ether_addr addr = { .addr_bytes = "\x33\x33\xff\x00\x00\x01",};  <==when set this
+    rte_eth_dev_mac_addr_add(portid, &addr, 0);
+#else
+
     rte_eth_promiscuous_enable(portid);  <====we need to avoid this

  Best,

Liwu

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> 
Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 3:05 PM
To: Liwu Liu <liwuliu@fortinet.com>
Cc: users@dpdk.org; erezf@mellanox.com; kiranv@mellanox.com; rasland@mellanox.com; asafp@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] mlx5 PMD fails to receive certain icmpv6 multicast

26/03/2020 22:11, Thomas Monjalon:
> 06/03/2020 01:45, Liwu Liu:
> > Hi Team,
> > 
> > I am using the mlx5/100G in KVM guest. The host shows this PCI vfNIC is provisioned to the guest:
> >       "17:01.1 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27800 Family [ConnectX-5 Virtual Function]"
> > 
> > I am using DPDK 19.11 with kind of standard configurations, and when DPDK application runs I still have the kernel mlx5e net device present. I have both promiscuous and all-multicast turned on.
> > 
> > It works fine for IPV4, but for IPV6 it fails. It can receive packets destined to 33:33:00:00:00:02 (IPV6 Router solicitation), but cannot receive packets destined to 33:33:ff:00:00:01 (IPV6 neighbor solicitation for some address).
> > 
> > But if I avoid DPDK, directly use the OFED-4.6 based kernel driver, everything works fine as expected.
> > 
> > I am thinking there is some mismatch happened for MLX5 PMD. Please give some advice/hints.
> 
> Adding Mellanox engineers in Cc list for help.

Any update to share please?