Hi,

[I'm replying to an old thread, hoping my email client won't screw up references too much - sorry in advance if it does]

>On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 10:08:31PM +0000, Fujinaka, Todd wrote:
>> Just a quick update with the response I got and I'll make sure this is in our internal bug database.
>>
>> Here's what I got back, and it looks like you guys have tried this already:
>>
>> Have they tried these steps to configure RSS:
[...]
> With potentially 10000 ipsec connections, we don't even want to look at
> creating manual flow entries.  There isn't enough room for that.  We just
> wanted RSS to do its job the way it does on every other NIC in the past.
> After years of using mostly intel NICs that just worked, this one has
> been quite the surprise.
>
[...]
> Already tried with 4.19 kernel which is essentially identical to the
> latest out of tree driver (I diffed them and found no functional
> differences at all) and it didn't help.  Well it was essentially identical
> to the latest out of tree a few weeks ago.  It seems there is now a
> newer one with some changes although nothing in the list of changes
> sound relevant.
>
> We do not want to use the out of tree driver and even trying it out is
> a lot of work.  We used to use it in the past for some NIC types but
> stopped due to the hassle of maintaining the integration.  If any problems
> exist in the in kernel driver we will patch it, but so far that does not
> appear to be the problem.  The tests we did so far indicate the firmware
> isn't applying an RSS value to certain packet types.  Even mapping every
> RSS value to queue 7 still saw these packets arrive on queue 0 which
> should of course be impossible if the firmware was working. Now if
> there is anything in the out of tree driver that you think can explain
> this problem, I will look at it and consider trying it, but so far I
> see nothing that makes that worth the effort.  It just doesn't look like
> a driver problem.  If someone has access to a S2600WFT board (or some
> other C612 based board) it should be simple enough to try replaying
> the captured packet and see what RSS queue it hits (with ATR disabled
> of course).

Was there any progress here?

As X722 is getting more and more ubiquitous, it's getting harder and harder to avoid it. Problems like this, SFP EEPROM readout I reported [1], or the recently announced NetCAT issue [2] (X722 seems to support iWARP/RDMA) make it really hard to recommend X722 for production use.

[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg12550.html
[2] https://www.vusec.net/projects/netcat/

Regards,
 Jakub.



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