netdev - Re: Accelerated receive flow steering (aRFS) for UDP

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Date:   Sat, 08 Oct 2016 08:38:16 +0900
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     "Chopra, Manish" <Manish.Chopra@...ium.com>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "maorg@...lanox.com" <maorg@...lanox.com>,
        "tom@...bertland.com" <tom@...bertland.com>
Subject: Re: Accelerated receive flow steering (aRFS) for UDP

On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 22:55 +0000, Chopra, Manish wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> 
> I am experimenting aRFS with our NIC devices, and for that I have
> kernel 4.8.x installed with below config.
> 
> CONFIG_RPS=y
> CONFIG_RFS_ACCEL=y
> 
> # cat /proc/cpuinfo  | grep processor
> processor       : 0
> processor       : 1
> processor       : 2
> processor       : 3
> processor       : 4
> processor       : 5
> processor       : 6
> processor       : 7
> processor       : 8
> processor       : 9
> processor       : 10
> processor       : 11
> processor       : 12
> processor       : 13
> processor       : 14
> processor       : 15
> 
> I configured rps_sock_flow_entries  and our NIC rx queues with below
> values
> 
> echo 32768 > /proc/sys/net/core/rps_sock_flow_entries
> echo 4096 > /sys/class/net/p4p1/queues/rx-0/rps_flow_cnt
> echo 4096 > /sys/class/net/p4p1/queues/rx-1/rps_flow_cnt
> echo 4096 > /sys/class/net/p4p1/queues/rx-2/rps_flow_cnt
> echo 4096 > /sys/class/net/p4p1/queues/rx-3/rps_flow_cnt
> echo 4096 > /sys/class/net/p4p1/queues/rx-4/rps_flow_cnt
> echo 4096 > /sys/class/net/p4p1/queues/rx-5/rps_flow_cnt
> echo 4096 > /sys/class/net/p4p1/queues/rx-6/rps_flow_cnt
> echo 4096 > /sys/class/net/p4p1/queues/rx-7/rps_flow_cnt
> 
> echo ffff > /sys/class/net/p4p1/queues/rx-0/rps_cpus
> echo ffff > /sys/class/net/p4p1/queues/rx-1/rps_cpus
> echo ffff > /sys/class/net/p4p1/queues/rx-2/rps_cpus
> echo ffff > /sys/class/net/p4p1/queues/rx-3/rps_cpus
> echo ffff > /sys/class/net/p4p1/queues/rx-4/rps_cpus
> echo ffff > /sys/class/net/p4p1/queues/rx-5/rps_cpus
> echo ffff > /sys/class/net/p4p1/queues/rx-6/rps_cpus
> echo ffff > /sys/class/net/p4p1/queues/rx-7/rps_cpus
> 
> Below is IRQ affinity configuration for NIC irqs used. 
> 
> # cat /proc/irq/67/smp_affinity_list
> 8
> # cat /proc/irq/68/smp_affinity_list
> 9
> # cat /proc/irq/69/smp_affinity_list
> 10
> # cat /proc/irq/70/smp_affinity_list
> 11
> # cat /proc/irq/71/smp_affinity_list
> 12
> # cat /proc/irq/72/smp_affinity_list
> 13
> # cat /proc/irq/73/smp_affinity_list
> 14
> # cat /proc/irq/74/smp_affinity_list
> 15
> 
> Driver has required feature NETIF_F_NTUPLE set, ndo_rx_flow_steer()
> registered and I am running UDP multiple connections stream using
> netperf to the host where I am experimenting aRFS. 
> 
> # netperf -V
> Netperf version 2.7.0
> 
> netperf -H 192.168.200.40 -t UDP_STREAM -l 150 -T 8,8 -- -m 1470 -P
> 5001,48512 &
> netperf -H 192.168.200.40 -t UDP_STREAM -l 150 -T 9,9 -- -m 1470 -P
> 5001,37990 &
> netperf -H 192.168.200.40 -t UDP_STREAM -l 150 -T 10,10 -- -m 1470 -P
> 5001,40302 &
> netperf -H 192.168.200.40 -t UDP_STREAM -l 150 -T 11,11 -- -m 1470 -P
> 5001,39071 &
> netperf -H 192.168.200.40 -t UDP_STREAM -l 150 -T 12,12 -- -m 1470 -P
> 5001,58994 &
> netperf -H 192.168.200.40 -t UDP_STREAM -l 150 -T 13,13 -- -m 1470 -P
> 5001,59884 &
> netperf -H 192.168.200.40 -t UDP_STREAM -l 150 -T 14,14 -- -m 1470 -P
> 5001,40282 &
> netperf -H 192.168.200.40 -t UDP_STREAM -l 150 -T 15,15 -- -m 1470 -P
> 5001,56042 &
> 
> I see that our registered callback for ndo_rx_flow_steer() "NEVER"
> gets invoked for UDP packets, with TCP_STREAM I do see it gets
> invoked.
> But while running UDP_STREAM I see it gets invoked for some of TCP
> packets as netperf also uses TCP managed connections while running
> UDP_STREAM.
> 
> My initial investigation suspects that while running UDP_STREAM with
> netperf, rps_sock_flow_table doesn't get updated, as packets never
> reach to the flow of inet_recvmsg()
> where it gets updated using sock_rps_record_flow(). Which might be the
> reason it never invokes NIC's flow steering handler ?
> 
> Please note that when I run UDP stream using "iperf" - I do see that
> our registered callback function for flow steering gets invoked for
> "UDP" packets.
> I am not sure if I am missing something in configuration or something
> else which is I am unware of  ? 
> 
> I appreciate any help for this.

Make sure you use connected UDP flows


netperf -t UDP_STREAM ... -- -N -n

Otherwise, one UDP socket can be involved in millions of 4-tuples (aka
flows)