> On 15 Dec 2017, at 17:51, Alexander Duyck <alexander.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 8:03 AM, John Fastabend > <john.fastab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 12/15/2017 07:53 AM, David Miller wrote: >>> From: Eric Leblond <e...@regit.org> >>> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:24:46 +0100 >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> When using an ixgbe card with Suricata we are using the following >>>> commands to get a symmetric hash on RSS load balancing: >>>> >>>> ./set_irq_affinity 0-15 eth3 >>>> ethtool -X eth3 hkey >>>> 6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A:6D:5A >>>> equal 16 >>>> ethtool -x eth3 >>>> ethtool -n eth3 >>>> >>>> Then we start Suricata. >>>> >>>> In my current experiment on XDP, I have Suricata that inject the eBPF >>>> program when starting. The consequence of that when using an ixgbe card >>>> is that the load balancing get reset and all interrupts are reaching >>>> the first core. >>> >>> This definitely should _not_ be a side effect of enabling XDP on a device. >>> >> >> Agreed, CC Emil and Alex we should restore these settings after the >> reconfiguration done to support a queue per core. >> >> .John > > So the interrupt configuration has to get reset since we have to > assign 2 Tx queues for every Rx queue instead of the 1-1 that was > previously there. That is a natural consequence of rearranging the > queues as currently happens. The issue is the q_vectors themselves > have to be reallocated. The only way to not make that happen would be > to pre-allocate the Tx queues for XDP always. > > Also just to be clear we are talking about the interrupts being reset, > not the RSS key right? I just want to make sure that is what we are > talking about. >
Yes. From the tests we did I only observed the IRQs being all reset to the first CPU after Suricata started. > Thanks. > > - Alex
