[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] app/testpmd: only config supported RSS hash types

Xueming(Steven) Li xuemingl at mellanox.com
Wed Apr 18 16:26:30 CEST 2018


+Olivier

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 10:17 PM
> To: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl at mellanox.com>
> Cc: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>; Nelio Laranjeiro <notifications at github.com>; Wenzhuo Lu
> <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>; Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu at intel.com>; Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>;
> dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] app/testpmd: only config supported RSS hash types
> 
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 01:54:20PM +0000, Xueming(Steven) Li wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:26 PM
> > > To: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl at mellanox.com>
> > > Cc: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>; Nelio Laranjeiro
> > > <notifications at github.com>; Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>;
> > > Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu at intel.com>; Thomas Monjalon
> > > <thomas at monjalon.net>; dev at dpdk.org
> > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] app/testpmd: only config
> > > supported RSS hash types
> > >
> > > Hi Xueming,
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 07:06:48PM +0800, Xueming Li wrote:
> > > > "port config all rss all" command will fail on PMD that not
> > > > support any of hard coding RSS hash types. This patch changed hard
> > > > coding hash types to supported types retrieved from device info.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl at mellanox.com>
> > >
> > > Problem is that this patch removes the ability to request "all" RSS types regardless of PMD
> support.
> > >
> > > Users will expect "all" to behave as documented, however doing so
> > > will only result in the limited set of types reported by PMDs. For
> > > instance at least
> > > mlx4 doesn't update the flow_type_rss_offloads field since it has
> > > never implemented configuration support for the legacy RSS API.
> > >
> > > You should add an argument with a different name (e.g. "supported"
> > > or
> > > "default") for that and keep the original meaning for "all".
> > >
> > > Testpmd documentation has to be updated accordingly.
> >
> > You must want to have a look at first part of this patchset:
> > https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.
> > dpdk.org%2Fml%2Farchives%2Fdev%2F2018-April%2F097849.html&data=02%7C01
> > %7Cxuemingl%40mellanox.com%7C497583093d324a6861f708d5a5370a8f%7Ca65297
> > 1c7d2e4d9ba6a4d149256f461b%7C0%7C0%7C636596578186582002&sdata=uNVw2egf
> > 0rcTHazCuoMelNrY44lZVfd6Ado1bJfzg8s%3D&reserved=0
> 
> I did, however this is does not address my previous comment.

In first patch, if flow_type_rss_offloads not set, any RSS will not be allowed.
We need to clarify definition of empty flow_type_rss_offloads, not set or no rss support.

> 
> In this patch you're preventing testpmd users from requesting something. If they want to enable "all"
> RSS types and some of them happen to be unsupported on some ports, it means they want to get errors.
> Otherwise they might think their request succeeded while it was in fact interpreted in an undocumented
> manner.
> 
> The point is if users want to enable only "supported" RSS types, they wouldn't write "all" on the
> command line right? A new parameter is needed for that.
> 
> >
> > >
> > > One more nit below.
> > >
> > > > ---
> > > >  app/test-pmd/cmdline.c | 7 +++++++
> > > >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c b/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c index
> > > > 512e3b55e..d357de7e6 100644
> > > > --- a/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c
> > > > +++ b/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c
> > > > @@ -1998,6 +1998,7 @@ cmd_config_rss_parsed(void *parsed_result,  {
> > > >  	struct cmd_config_rss *res = parsed_result;
> > > >  	struct rte_eth_rss_conf rss_conf = { .rss_key_len = 0, };
> > > > +	struct rte_eth_dev_info dev_info = {0};
> > >
> > > This could be declared in the new block where it's used. Also note
> > > that "{0}" is nonstandard syntax, use memset() or initialize a field like rss_key_len above.
> > >
> > > >  	int diag;
> > > >  	uint8_t i;
> > > >
> > > > @@ -2034,6 +2035,12 @@ cmd_config_rss_parsed(void *parsed_result,
> > > >  	}
> > > >  	rss_conf.rss_key = NULL;
> > > >  	for (i = 0; i < rte_eth_dev_count(); i++) {
> > > > +		if (!strcmp(res->value, "all")) {
> > > > +			rte_eth_dev_info_get(i, &dev_info);
> > > > +			if (dev_info.flow_type_rss_offloads)
> > > > +				rss_conf.rss_hf =
> > > > +					dev_info.flow_type_rss_offloads;
> > > > +		}
> > > >  		diag = rte_eth_dev_rss_hash_update(i, &rss_conf);
> > > >  		if (diag < 0)
> > > >  			printf("Configuration of RSS hash at ethernet port %d "
> > > > --
> > > > 2.13.3
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Adrien Mazarguil
> > > 6WIND
> 
> --
> Adrien Mazarguil
> 6WIND


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