Thanks for that comments.

[Sugesh] Any reason, why this patch does only the TCP checksum offload??
The command line option says tx_checksum offload (it could be mistakenly
considered for full checksum offload).

[Zhenyu Gao] DPDK nic supports many hw offload feature like IPv4,IPV6,TCP,
UDP,VXLAN,GRE. I would like to make them work step by step. A huge patch
may introduce more potential issues.
TCP offload is a basic and essential feature so I prefer to implement it
first.

[Sugesh] What is the performance improvement offered with this feature? Do
you have any numbers to share?
[Zhenyu Gao]I think DPDK uses non-vector functions when Tx checksum offload
is enabled. Will it give enough performance improvement to mitigate that
cost?
It is a draft patch to collect advise and suggestions. In my draft testing,
it doesn't show improvment or regression
In ovs-dpdk + veth environment, veth support tcp cksum offload by default,
but it introduces tcp connection issue because veth believes it supports
cksum and offload to ovs, but dpdk side doesn't do the offloading.
So I have to use ethtool -K eth1 tx off to disable all tx offloading if
using original ovs-dpdk. That means we cannot consume TSO as well.

It is a ovs-dpdk + veth environment. So it consumes sendmsg/ recvmsg on
RX/TX in ovs-dpdk side. The netperf was executed on ovs-dpdk + veth side.
The veth side enabled tx-tcp hw cksum, disabled tso.    Bottleneck was not
in cksum, and running testing in a vhost VM is more reasonable.

[root@16ee46e4b793 ~]# netperf -H 10.100.85.247 -t TCP_RR -l 10
MIGRATED TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to
10.100.85.247 () port 0 AF_INET : first burst 0
Local /Remote
Socket Size   Request  Resp.   Elapsed  Trans.
Send   Recv   Size     Size    Time     Rate
bytes  Bytes  bytes    bytes   secs.    per sec

16384  87380  1        1       10.00    15001.87(HW tcp-cksum)
15062.72(No HW tcp-cksum)
16384  87380


[root@16ee46e4b793 ~]#     netperf -H 10.100.85.247 -t TCP_STREAM -l 10
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to
10.100.85.247 () port 0 AF_INET
Recv   Send    Send
Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec

 87380  16384  16384    10.02     263.41(HW tcp-cksum)   265.31(No HW
tcp-cksum)

I would like to keep it disabled in default setting unless we implement
more tx offloading like TSO.(Do you have concern on it?)  BTW, I think I
can rename NETDEV_TX_CHECKSUM_OFFLOAD into NETDEV_TX_TCP_CHECKSUM_OFFLOAD.


Please let me know if you get any questions. :)

Thanks

2017-06-19 17:26 GMT+08:00 Chandran, Sugesh <[email protected]>:

> Hi Zhenyu,
>
> Thank you for working on this,
> I have couple of questions in this patch.
>
> Regards
> _Sugesh
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:ovs-dev-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Zhenyu Gao
> > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2017 1:54 PM
> > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Kavanagh,
> > Mark B <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> > Subject: [ovs-dev] [RFC PATCH v1] net-dpdk: Introducing TX tcp HW
> > checksum offload support for DPDK pnic
> >
> > This patch introduce TX tcp-checksum offload support for DPDK pnic.
> > The feature is disabled by default and can be enabled by setting tx-
> > checksum-offload, which like:
> > ovs-vsctl set Interface dpdk-eth3 \
> >  options:tx-checksum-offload=true
> > ---
> >  lib/netdev-dpdk.c    | 112
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >  vswitchd/vswitch.xml |  13 ++++--
> >  2 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/netdev-dpdk.c b/lib/netdev-dpdk.c index bba4de3..5a68a48
> > 100644
> > --- a/lib/netdev-dpdk.c
> > +++ b/lib/netdev-dpdk.c
> > @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
> >  #include <rte_mbuf.h>
> >  #include <rte_meter.h>
> >  #include <rte_virtio_net.h>
> > +#include <rte_ip.h>
> >
> >  #include "dirs.h"
> >  #include "dp-packet.h"
> > @@ -328,6 +329,7 @@ struct ingress_policer {
> >
> >  enum dpdk_hw_ol_features {
> >      NETDEV_RX_CHECKSUM_OFFLOAD = 1 << 0,
> > +    NETDEV_TX_CHECKSUM_OFFLOAD = 1 << 1,
> >  };
> >
> >  struct netdev_dpdk {
> > @@ -649,6 +651,8 @@ dpdk_eth_dev_queue_setup(struct netdev_dpdk
> > *dev, int n_rxq, int n_txq)
> >      int diag = 0;
> >      int i;
> >      struct rte_eth_conf conf = port_conf;
> > +    struct rte_eth_txconf *txconf;
> > +    struct rte_eth_dev_info dev_info;
> >
> >      if (dev->mtu > ETHER_MTU) {
> >          conf.rxmode.jumbo_frame = 1;
> > @@ -676,9 +680,16 @@ dpdk_eth_dev_queue_setup(struct netdev_dpdk
> > *dev, int n_rxq, int n_txq)
> >              break;
> >          }
> >
> > +        rte_eth_dev_info_get(dev->port_id, &dev_info);
> > +        txconf = &dev_info.default_txconf;
> > +        if (dev->hw_ol_features & NETDEV_TX_CHECKSUM_OFFLOAD) {
> > +            /*Enable tx offload feature on pnic*/
> > +            txconf->txq_flags = 0;
> > +        }
> > +
> >          for (i = 0; i < n_txq; i++) {
> >              diag = rte_eth_tx_queue_setup(dev->port_id, i,
> dev->txq_size,
> > -                                          dev->socket_id, NULL);
> > +                                          dev->socket_id, txconf);
> >              if (diag) {
> >                  VLOG_INFO("Interface %s txq(%d) setup error: %s",
> >                            dev->up.name, i, rte_strerror(-diag)); @@
> -724,11 +735,15 @@
> > dpdk_eth_checksum_offload_configure(struct netdev_dpdk *dev)  {
> >      struct rte_eth_dev_info info;
> >      bool rx_csum_ol_flag = false;
> > +    bool tx_csum_ol_flag = false;
> >      uint32_t rx_chksm_offload_capa = DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_UDP_CKSUM |
> >                                       DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_TCP_CKSUM |
> >                                       DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_IPV4_CKSUM;
> > +    uint32_t tx_chksm_offload_capa = DEV_TX_OFFLOAD_TCP_CKSUM;
> [Sugesh] Any reason, why this patch does only the TCP checksum offload??
> The command line option says tx_checksum offload (it could be mistakenly
> considered for full checksum offload).
>
> > +
> >      rte_eth_dev_info_get(dev->port_id, &info);
> >      rx_csum_ol_flag = (dev->hw_ol_features &
> > NETDEV_RX_CHECKSUM_OFFLOAD) != 0;
> > +    tx_csum_ol_flag = (dev->hw_ol_features &
> > + NETDEV_TX_CHECKSUM_OFFLOAD) != 0;
> >
> >      if (rx_csum_ol_flag &&
> >          (info.rx_offload_capa & rx_chksm_offload_capa) != @@ -736,9
> +751,15
> > @@ dpdk_eth_checksum_offload_configure(struct netdev_dpdk *dev)
> >          VLOG_WARN_ONCE("Rx checksum offload is not supported on device
> > %"PRIu8,
> >                         dev->port_id);
> >          dev->hw_ol_features &= ~NETDEV_RX_CHECKSUM_OFFLOAD;
> > -        return;
> > +    } else if (tx_csum_ol_flag &&
> > +               (info.tx_offload_capa & tx_chksm_offload_capa) !=
> > +                tx_chksm_offload_capa) {
> > +        VLOG_WARN_ONCE("Tx checksum offload is not supported on device
> > %"PRIu8,
> > +                       dev->port_id);
> > +        dev->hw_ol_features &= ~NETDEV_TX_CHECKSUM_OFFLOAD;
> > +    } else {
> > +        netdev_request_reconfigure(&dev->up);
> >      }
> > -    netdev_request_reconfigure(&dev->up);
> >  }
> >
> > --
>
> [Sugesh] What is the performance improvement offered with this feature? Do
> you have any numbers to share?
> I think DPDK uses non-vector functions when Tx checksum offload is
> enabled. Will it give enough performance improvement to mitigate that cost?
>
> Finally Rx checksum offload is going to be a default option (there wont be
> any configuration option to enable/disable, Kevin's patch for the support
> is already acked and waiting to merge).  Similarly can't we enable it by
> default when it is supported?
>
>
>
> > 1.8.3.1
>
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