Re: [Intel-wired-lan] i40e X722 RSS problem with NAT-Traversal IPsec packets

[Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 9:55 AM Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 04:59:35PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 10:19:47AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> > > The TCP flow could be bypassing RSS and may be using ATR to decide
> > > where the Rx packets are processed. Now that I think about it there is
> > > a possibility that ATR could be interfering with the queue selection.
> > > You might try disabling it by running:
> > >     ethtool --set-priv-flags <iface> flow-director-atr off
> >
> > Hmm, I thought I had killed ATR (I certainly meant to), but it appears
> > I had not.  I will experiment to see if that makes a difference.
> >
> > > The problem is RSS can be bypassed for queue selection by things like
> > > ATR which I called out above. One possibility is that if the
> > > encryption you were using was leaving the skb->encapsulation flag set,
> > > and the NIC might have misidentified the packets as something it could
> > > parse and set up a bunch of rules that were rerouting incoming traffic
> > > based on outgoing traffic. Disabling the feature should switch off
> > > that behavior if that is in fact the case.
> > >
> > > You are probably fine using 40 queues. That isn't an even power of two
> > > so it would actually improve the entropy a bit since the lower bits
> > > don't have a many:1 mapping to queues.
> >
> > I will let you know Monday how my tests go with atr off.  I really
> > thought that was off already since it was supposed to be.  We always
> > try to turn that off because it does not work well.
>
> OK it took a while to try a bunch of stuff to make sure ATR really really
> was off.
>
> I still see the problem it seems.
>
> # ethtool --show-priv-flags eth2
> Private flags for eth2:
> MFP              : off
> LinkPolling      : off
> flow-director-atr: off
> veb-stats        : off
> hw-atr-eviction  : on
> legacy-rx        : off
>
> # ethtool -i eth2
> driver: i40e
> version: 2.1.7-k
> firmware-version: 4.00 0x80001577 1.1767.0
> expansion-rom-version:
> bus-info: 0000:3d:00.1
> supports-statistics: yes
> supports-test: yes
> supports-eeprom-access: yes
> supports-register-dump: yes
> supports-priv-flags: yes
>
>
> Here are two packets that for some reason both go to queue 0 which
> seems odd.  As far as I can tell all of the packets for UDP port 4500
> traffic from any IP is going to queue 0.
>
> UDP from 10.49.1.50:4500 to 10.49.1.1:4500 encapsulating ESP:
>
> a4bf 014e 0c88 001f 45ff f410 0800 45e0
> 0060 166e 4000 4011 0b1b 0af9 0132 0af9
> 0101 1194 1194 004c 0000 0000 0201 0000
> 0000 4eaf 2f76 58cd aae0 4d92 8cb7 0835
> 1141 7a23 9f06 f323 b816 1a2b c88d 322c
> 5f16 d4a6 ba72 7c89 2258 9d20 085e d6ed
> c7a4 5cc1 3ef2 0753 783d b691 e9d6
>
> UDP from 10.49.1.51:4500 to 10.49.1.1:4500 encapsulating ESP:
>
> a4bf 014e 0c88 20f3 99ae c688 0800 45e0
> 0060 1671 4000 4011 0b17 0af9 0133 0af9
> 0101 1194 1194 004c 0000 0000 0200 0000
> 0000 4ec5 253f 27f1 7fdd 4d82 0697 bef2
> 45bd 281f 8ecf ac4f 06ed 79ba 3cbb 5eaf
> 494b 146e a013 8b93 1c38 8aef da3f a73d
> 6f13 5f80 e946 82e2 7da7 21e8 9d03
>
>
> # ethtool -x eth2
> RX flow hash indirection table for eth2 with 12 RX ring(s):
>     0:      0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7
>     8:      8     9    10    11     0     1     2     3
>    16:      4     5     6     7     8     9    10    11
> ...
>   488:      8     9    10    11     0     1     2     3
>   496:      4     5     6     7     8     9    10    11
>   504:      0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7
> RSS hash key:
> 60:56:66:39:8e:70:46:02:5d:33:5e:9c:5f:f6:fa:9d:ac:50:63:7c:ca:01:23:22:07:a3:8a:23:98:fd:38:5b:74:96:7e:72:0c:aa:83:fc:10:aa:6d:35:bb:8c:4e:eb:46:03:07:6a
>
> Changing the key to:
>
> aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55:aa:55
>
> makes no change in the queue the packets are going to.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen

So I recreated the first packet you listed via text2pcap, replayed it
on my test system via tcpreplay, updated my configuration to 12
queues, and used the 2 hash keys you listed. I ended up seeing the
traffic bounce between queues 4 and 8 with an X710 I had to test with
when I was changing the key value.

Unfortunately I don't have an X722 to test with. I'm suspecting that
there may be some difference in the RSS setup, specifically it seems
like values in the PFQF_HENA register were changed for the X722 part
that may be causing the issues we are seeing.

I will see if I can get someone from the networking division to take a
look at this since I don't have access to the part in question nor a
datasheet for it so I am not sure if I can help much more.

Thanks.

- Alex