[ovs-dev] [ PATCH v2] dpdk: Use DPDK 17.11.2 release.
Christian Ehrhardt
christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com
Wed May 9 05:44:48 UTC 2018
On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 7:36 PM, Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 05/08/2018 09:19 AM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 6:22 PM, Stokes, Ian <ian.stokes at intel.com
> > <mailto:ian.stokes at intel.com>> wrote:
> >
> > > On 05/02/2018 11:16 AM, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> > > > Hi Ian,
> > > >
> > > > On 05/02/2018 11:42 AM, Stokes, Ian wrote:
> > > >>> On 04/25/2018 10:17 AM, Stokes, Ian wrote:
> > > >>>>> Modify travis linux build script to use the latest DPDK
> stable
> > > >>>>> release 17.11.2. Update docs for latest DPDK stable releases.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Thanks for this Kevin, I'm lining this up for the next pull
> request.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Thanks - note, this is relevant for master and branch-2.9.
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> Hi Kevin,
> > > >>
> > > >> I was running validation for the this week's pull request and I
> > > >> spotted vhost reconnect was failing.
> > > >>
> > > >> I traced it back to the move to 17.11.2.
> > > >>
> > > >> The test case is a vm running testpmd forwarding traffic in p2p.
> > > >>
> > > >> The vswitch itself is reset so traffic stops arriving to the vm,
> > > >> after restarting the vswitch reconnects to the VM. At this point
> > > >> testpmd within the VM segfaults.
> > > >>
> > >
> > > Thanks for finding it. Which version of guest DPDK and QEMU do you
> use?
> > > Also what are settings for rx mergable buffers, vIOMMU, MTU, num
> queues?
> >
> > Sorry for the delay, wanted to do a little more testing.
> >
> > DPDK 17.11.2 (on both host and guest.)
> > QEMU 2.9.1.
> > Mergable buffer off.
> > vIOMMU disabled.
> > MTU=1500.
> > Single queue for vhost interfaces.
> >
> > For completeness the QEMU argument vsperf uses for launching the VM
> > is below. I didn’t see anything out of place myself.
> >
> > /bin/bash', '-c', 'sudo -E taskset -c 6,7
> > /opt/istokes/qemu/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048 -smp 2
> > -cpu host,migratable=off -drive
> > if=scsi,file=/opt/istokes/vm_images/vsperf_img1.qcow2 -boot c
> > --enable-kvm -monitor unix:/tmp/vm0monitor,server,nowait -object
> > memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=2048M,mem-path=/dev/
> hugepages,share=on
> > -numa node,memdev=mem -mem-prealloc -nographic -vnc :0 -name Client0
> > -snapshot -net none -no-reboot -drive
> > if=scsi,format=raw,file=fat:rw:/tmp/qemu0_share,snapshot=off
> > -chardev
> > socket,id=char0,path=/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/
> dpdkvhostuserclient0,server
> > -netdev type=vhost-user,id=net1,chardev=char0,vhostforce -device
> > virtio-net-pci,mac=00:00:00:00:00:01,netdev=net1,csum=off,
> mrg_rxbuf=off,gso=off,guest_tso4=off,guest_tso6=off,guest_ecn=off
> > -chardev
> > socket,id=char1,path=/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/
> dpdkvhostuserclient1,server
> > -netdev type=vhost-user,id=net2,chardev=char1,vhostforce -device
> > virtio-net-pci,mac=00:00:00:00:00:02,netdev=net2,csum=off,
> mrg_rxbuf=off,gso=off,guest_tso4=off,guest_tso6=off,guest_ecn=off'
> >
> > In testing I swapped to QEMU 2.7.1 and in that case the test passes
> > without issue using 17.11.2 (same setup as above).
> >
> >
> > Hi Ian,
> > I wanted to ask if there was progress on this outside of this mail
> thread?
> > We were holding back the otherwise ready CVE on DPDK due to this, but I
> > can't reproduce the hang on my own.
> > So I was wondering if I might have missed updates on this topic that
> > were sent somewhere else?
> >
>
> Hi Christian, I talked with Maxime and it looks to be a QEMU bug
> introduced in QEMU 2.9 and fixed in QEMU 2.11/2.10.2 [1]. It doesn't
> appear to be caused by DPDK 17.11.2. I guess Ian will run through his
> test system when he is back in the office.
>
This is just the update I needed.
Waiting for Ian then, to be back and verify the commit fixes it for the
qemu versions being affected at the moment.
Thank you Kevin!
> Kevin.
>
> [1]
> https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=2ae39a113af311cb56a0c35b7f212d
> afcef15303
>
>
> > Ian
> > >
> > > >> Doing a git bisect on DPDK 17.11.2 the issue occurs with commit
> > > >>
> > > >> vhost: fix indirect descriptors table translation size
> (a0d990b19)
> > > >
> > > > I would be surprised the problem comes from this patch.
> > > > I guess your are testing without vIOMMU enabled> If this is the
> > case,
> > > > then the size parameter isn't used at the time of this patch:
> > > >
> > > > static __rte_always_inline uint64_t
> > > > vhost_iova_to_vva(struct virtio_net *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue
> > *vq,
> > > > uint64_t iova, uint64_t size, uint8_t perm) {
> > > > if (!(dev->features & (1ULL << VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM)))
> > > > return rte_vhost_gpa_to_vva(dev->mem, iova);
> > > >
> > > > return __vhost_iova_to_vva(dev, vq, iova, size, perm); }
> > > >
> > > > So I fail to see how it could cause any regression.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Maxime
> > > >
> > > >> Just wondering if you see similar behavior in testing?
> > > >>
> > > >> Regards
> > > >> Ian
> > > >>
> > > >>
> >
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> > Christian Ehrhardt
> > Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
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