netdev - Re: ipsec smp scalability and cpu use fairness (softirqs)

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Date:	Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:57:57 +0300
From:	Timo Teras <timo.teras@....fi>
To:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Cc:	Andrew Collins <bsderandrew@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipsec smp scalability and cpu use fairness (softirqs)

On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:46:14 +0200
Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 09:23:12AM +0300, Timo Teras wrote:
> > 
> > For my scenario it will be usually even same SPI. So even if flow
> > dissector learns ESP and uses SPI in hash, I'd need a way to balance
> > traffic to multiple SAs.
> > 
> > I guess the place where I'd want to see the distribution to cores is
> > crypto_aead_*() calls. In fact, it seems there's code infracture
> > already for it: crypto/cryptd.c. Seems it needs to be manually
> > configured and only few places e.g. aesni gcm parts use it.
> > 
> > I'm wondering if it'd make sense to patch net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c to
> > use cryptd? Or at least have a Kconfig or sysctl option make it do
> > so.
> 
> It is possible to configure the used crypto algorithm from userspace
> with the crypto user configuration API, see crypto/crypto_user.c.
> 
> I wrote to tool that usses this API some time ago, it is still
> a bit rudimentary but it does the job. You can find it at:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/crconf/

Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!

> Also, if you want parallelism, you could use the pcrypt algorithm.
> It sends the crypto requests asynchronously round robin to a
> configurable set of cpus. Finaly it takes care to bring the
> served crypto requests back into the order they were submitted
> to avoid packet reordering.

Right. Looks like this helps a lot.

Perhaps it would be worth to experiment also with RPS type hash based
cpu selection?

> Currently we have only one systemwide workqueue for encryption
> and one decryption. So all IPsec packets are send to the same
> workqueue, regardless which state they use.
> 
> I have patches that make it possible to configure a separate
> workqueue for each state or to group some states to a specific
> workqueue. These patches are still unpublished because they
> have not much testing yet, but I could send them after some
> polishing for review or testing if you are interested.

Yes, I'd be interested.

Thanks!
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