[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] netdev-dpdk: Restore txq/rxq number if initialization fails.

Luis E Pena lpena at vmware.com
Fri Jul 24 16:18:24 UTC 2015


I am going to try to reproduce it on a different machine. 

> On Jul 24, 2015, at 09:15, Stokes, Ian <ian.stokes at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> I have re-tested the patch on a number of our systems with the 
> latest commit on master and I cannot reproduce the error you 
> mention below.
> 
> The only time I have seen that error occur would be if there was 
> no interface bound to igb_uio driver correctly before calling 
> 
> "ovs-vsctl add-port br0 dpdk0 -- set Interface dpdk0 type=dpdk"
> 
> I'm wondering if that’s the issue. Could you check this?
> 
> Thanks
> Ian
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Daniele Di
>> Proietto
>> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 1:33 PM
>> To: Luis E Pena
>> Cc: dev at openvswitch.org
>> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] netdev-dpdk: Restore txq/rxq number
>> if initialization fails.
>> 
>> I'm not able to reproduce it on my systems.
>> 
>> From the log, it looks like something might go wrong in
>> netdev_dpdk_construct(), but I can only guess from there.
>> 
>> Could you understand where the error is coming from inside
>> netdev-dpdk.c?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Daniele
>> 
>> On 24/07/2015 00:46, "Luis E Pena" <lpena at vmware.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Summary of issue:
>>> 
>>> I ran the following commands:
>>> 276  ovs-vswitchd --dpdk -c 0x1 -n 4 -- unix:$DB_SOCK --pidfile
>>> --detach --log-file
>>> 277  ovs-vsctl add-br br0 -- set bridge br0 datapath_type=netdev
>>> 278  ovs-vsctl add-port br0 dpdk0 -- set Interface dpdk0 type=dpdk
>>> 
>>> This is what the log file says:
>>> 2015-07-22T23:38:40.792Z|00002|vlog|INFO|opened log file
>>> /usr/local/var/log/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.log
>>> 2015-07-22T23:38:40.794Z|00003|ovs_numa|INFO|Discovered 8 CPU cores on
>>> NUMA node 0
>>> 2015-07-22T23:38:40.794Z|00004|ovs_numa|INFO|Discovered 8 CPU cores on
>>> NUMA node 1
>>> 2015-07-22T23:38:40.794Z|00005|ovs_numa|INFO|Discovered 2 NUMA nodes
>> and
>>> 16 CPU cores
>>> 2015-07-
>> 22T23:38:40.794Z|00006|reconnect|INFO|unix:/usr/local/var/run/open
>>> vswitch/db.sock: connecting...
>>> 2015-07-
>> 22T23:38:40.794Z|00007|reconnect|INFO|unix:/usr/local/var/run/open
>>> vswitch/db.sock: connected
>>> 2015-07-22T23:38:40.797Z|00008|bridge|INFO|ovs-vswitchd (Open vSwitch)
>>> 2.4.90
>>> 2015-07-22T23:38:46.896Z|00009|ofproto_dpif|INFO|netdev at ovs-netdev:
>>> Datapath supports recirculation
>>> 2015-07-22T23:38:46.896Z|00010|ofproto_dpif|INFO|netdev at ovs-netdev:
>> MPLS
>>> label stack length probed as 3
>>> 2015-07-22T23:38:46.896Z|00011|ofproto_dpif|INFO|netdev at ovs-netdev:
>>> Datapath supports unique flow ids
>>> 2015-07-22T23:38:46.897Z|00012|bridge|INFO|bridge br0: added interface
>>> br0 on port 65534
>>> 2015-07-22T23:38:46.899Z|00013|dpif_netlink|ERR|Generic Netlink family
>>> 'ovs_datapath' does not exist. The Open vSwitch kernel module is
>> probably
>>> not loaded.
>>> 2015-07-22T23:38:46.899Z|00014|bridge|INFO|bridge br0: using datapath
>> ID
>>> 0000b603c14fb247
>>> 2015-07-22T23:38:46.899Z|00015|connmgr|INFO|br0: added service
>> controller
>>> "punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/br0.mgmt"
>>> 2015-07-22T23:38:47.903Z|00016|memory|INFO|12400 kB peak resident set
>>> size after 10.1 seconds
>>> 2015-07-22T23:38:47.903Z|00017|memory|INFO|handlers:11 ports:1
>>> revalidators:5 rules:5
>>> 2015-07-22T23:38:51.118Z|00018|bridge|WARN|could not open network
>> device
>>> dpdk0 (No such device)
>>> 
>>> I can reproduce it if there are any more questions.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Luis E. P.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 23, 2015, at 16:33, Luis E Pena
>>> <lpena at vmware.com<mailto:lpena at vmware.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Will do.
>>> 
>>> Luis E. P.
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> On Jul 23, 2015, at 16:31, Ethan Jackson
>>> <ethan at nicira.com<mailto:ethan at nicira.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Would you please summarize the errors on list?  Daniele should
>>> probably have a look at it since he wrote the patch originally.
>>> 
>>> Ethan
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Luis E Pena
>>> <lpena at vmware.com<mailto:lpena at vmware.com>> wrote:
>>> I ran into errors when using master when adding a dpdk port. I worked
>>> with Pravin yesterday and we think that the cause is this patch.
>>> When we tried branch-2.4, we ran into no errors.
>>> Today I am working on confirming that this is the patch.
>>> 
>>> Luis E. P.
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> On Jul 23, 2015, at 15:38, Ethan Jackson
>>> <ethan at nicira.com<mailto:ethan at nicira.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Ben, Justin, should this be backported?  I'm not up on the policy at
>> the
>>> moment.
>>> 
>>> Etha
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 3:42 AM, Traynor, Kevin
>>> <kevin.traynor at intel.com<mailto:kevin.traynor at intel.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Daniele Di
>>> Proietto
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 7:48 PM
>>> To: dev at openvswitch.org<mailto:dev at openvswitch.org>
>>> Subject: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] netdev-dpdk: Restore txq/rxq number if
>>> initialization fails.
>>> 
>>> netdev_dpdk_set_multiq() should not set the number of configured rxq
>>> and txq if the driver initialization fails (meaning that the driver
>>> failed to setup the queues).  Otherwise, on a subsequent call to
>>> netdev_dpdk_set_multiq(), the code may believe that the queues have
>>> already been setup and there's no work to be done.
>>> 
>>> This commit fixes the problem by restoring the old values if
>>> dpdk_eth_dev_init() fails.
>>> 
>>> Reported-by: Ian Stokes
>>> <ian.stokes at intel.com<mailto:ian.stokes at intel.com>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Daniele Di Proietto
>>> <diproiettod at vmware.com<mailto:diproiettod at vmware.com>>
>>> ---
>>> lib/netdev-dpdk.c | 9 +++++++++
>>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/lib/netdev-dpdk.c b/lib/netdev-dpdk.c
>>> index 8b843db..5ae805e 100644
>>> --- a/lib/netdev-dpdk.c
>>> +++ b/lib/netdev-dpdk.c
>>> @@ -743,6 +743,7 @@ netdev_dpdk_set_multiq(struct netdev *netdev_,
>>> unsigned
>>> int n_txq,
>>> {
>>> struct netdev_dpdk *netdev = netdev_dpdk_cast(netdev_);
>>> int err = 0;
>>> +    int old_rxq, old_txq;
>>> 
>>> if (netdev->up.n_txq == n_txq && netdev->up.n_rxq == n_rxq) {
>>>     return err;
>>> @@ -753,12 +754,20 @@ netdev_dpdk_set_multiq(struct netdev *netdev_,
>>> unsigned
>>> int n_txq,
>>> 
>>> rte_eth_dev_stop(netdev->port_id);
>>> 
>>> +    old_txq = netdev->up.n_txq;
>>> +    old_rxq = netdev->up.n_rxq;
>>> netdev->up.n_txq = n_txq;
>>> netdev->up.n_rxq = n_rxq;
>>> 
>>> rte_free(netdev->tx_q);
>>> err = dpdk_eth_dev_init(netdev);
>>> netdev_dpdk_alloc_txq(netdev, netdev->real_n_txq);
>>> +    if (err) {
>>> +        /* If there has been an error, it means that the requested
>> queues
>>> +         * have not been created.  Restore the old numbers. */
>>> +        netdev->up.n_txq = old_txq;
>>> +        netdev->up.n_rxq = old_rxq;
>>> 
>>> I had thought that we should restore the previous netdev->tx_q but at
>>> present
>>> txq's are fixed, so I think it is fine. If txq's become configurable we
>>> can change.
>>> 
>>> It would be good to get these patches into OVS2.4 branch if there is
>>> still time?
>>> 
>>> Acked-by: Kevin Traynor
>>> <kevin.traynor at intel.com<mailto:kevin.traynor at intel.com>>
>>> 
>>> +    }
>>> 
>>> netdev->txq_needs_locking = netdev->real_n_txq != netdev->up.n_txq;
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 2.1.4
>>> 
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