On 13/12/2022 16:27, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12 Dec 2022, at 12:36, Roi Dayan wrote:
> 
>> On 12/12/2022 10:06, Roi Dayan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 23/11/2022 13:19, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
>>>> If a tc flow was installed but has not yet been used, report it as such.
>>>>
>>>> In addition, add a delay to the "IGMP - flood under normal action" test
>>>> case to make it work with many repetitions. This delay is also present
>>>> in other ICMP/IGMP tests.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]>
>>>> Acked-by: Roi Dayan <[email protected]>
>>>> ---
>>>>  lib/tc.c                 |    8 +++++++-
>>>>  tests/system-offloads.at |    3 +--
>>>>  tests/system-traffic.at  |    2 ++
>>>>  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/lib/tc.c b/lib/tc.c
>>>> index a66dc432f..934df2e5e 100644
>>>> --- a/lib/tc.c
>>>> +++ b/lib/tc.c
>>>> @@ -1361,7 +1361,13 @@ get_user_hz(void)
>>>>  static void
>>>>  nl_parse_tcf(const struct tcf_t *tm, struct tc_flower *flower)
>>>>  {
>>>> -    uint64_t lastused = time_msec() - (tm->lastuse * 1000 / 
>>>> get_user_hz());
>>>> +    uint64_t lastused;
>>>> +
>>>> +    if (tm->firstuse == 0) {
>>>> +        lastused = 0;
>>>> +    } else {
>>>> +        lastused = time_msec() - (tm->lastuse * 1000 / get_user_hz());
>>>> +    }
>>>>
>>>>      if (flower->lastused < lastused) {
>>>>          flower->lastused = lastused;
>>>> diff --git a/tests/system-offloads.at b/tests/system-offloads.at
>>>> index 102e89a1f..9db68b2a0 100644
>>>> --- a/tests/system-offloads.at
>>>> +++ b/tests/system-offloads.at
>>>> @@ -76,8 +76,7 @@ conntrack - multiple zones, local
>>>>  conntrack - multi-stage pipeline, local
>>>>  conntrack - ICMP related with NAT
>>>>  conntrack - DNAT load balancing
>>>> -conntrack - DNAT load balancing with NC
>>>> -IGMP - flood under normal action"
>>>> +conntrack - DNAT load balancing with NC"
>>>>  echo "$ovs_test_skip_list" | sed "s/<SPC>/ /g"])
>>>>
>>>>  m4_include([tests/system-traffic.at])
>>>> diff --git a/tests/system-traffic.at b/tests/system-traffic.at
>>>> index 07913a192..57ff83b51 100644
>>>> --- a/tests/system-traffic.at
>>>> +++ b/tests/system-traffic.at
>>>> @@ -7002,6 +7002,8 @@ f0 00 00 01 01 01 08 00 46 c0 00 28 00 00 40 00 01 
>>>> 02 d3 49 45 65 eb 4a e0 dnl
>>>>  00 00 16 94 04 00 00 22 00 f9 02 00 00 00 01 04 00 00 00 e0 00 00 fb 00 
>>>> 00 dnl
>>>>  00 00 00 00 > /dev/null])
>>>>
>>>> +sleep 1
>>>> +
>>>>  AT_CHECK([ovs-appctl dpctl/dump-flows --names | grep -e .*ipv4 | sort | 
>>>> dnl
>>>>            strip_stats | strip_used | strip_recirc | dnl
>>>>            sed 's/,packet_type(ns=[[0-9]]*,id=[[0-9]]*),/,/'],
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Eelco,
>>>
>>> I missed but we found an issue with this commit.
>>> hw offloaded rules dont get their firtuse attr being updated.
>>> This cause tc hw offloaded rules to always report as used:never.
>>> We added a specific check for this to catch this.
>>>
>>> This looks like a kernel bug that .stats_update op in tc actions
>>> should have a wrapper like tcf_lastuse_update() in .act op to
>>> update firstuse if 0.
>>
>> or maybe to update the call to the offload driver to do it as the sw
>> can't tell and doing it in .stats_update won't be real. it will be
>> the first time dump stats was done.
> 
> Hi Roi,
> 
> Thanks for noticing this!
> 
> I looked a bit at the kernel code and it looks like lastused is not 
> initialized as 0, which is the main problem for OVS. However, I think the 
> following modification to the patch should solve the problem:
> 
> 
> -    if (tm->firstuse == 0) {
> +    /* On creation both tm->install and tm->lastuse are set to jiffies
> +     * by the kernel. So if both values are the same, the flow has not been
> +     * used yet.
> +     *
> +     * Note that tm->firstuse can not be used due to some kernel bug, i.e.,
> +     * hardware offloaded flows do not update tm->firstuse. */
> +    if (tm->lastuse == tm->install) {
>          lastused = 0;
>      } else {
>          lastused = time_msec() - (tm->lastuse * 1000 / get_user_hz());
> 
> Can you maybe test this with your HW, as I do not have a setup ready?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eelco
> 
> 

Hi,

yes this is fine. I ran a checkup again with the original patch and
saw the used:never issue. after this fixup it's ok again.
so looks ok.

Thanks,
Roi


> 
>>> Will you send a fix for the kernel?
>>>
>>> Since we don't want to break working with current kernels I think
>>> we should avoid this patch for now and/or add a check to do this
>>> with newer kernels only.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Roi
> 
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