[ovs-discuss] 8021q module is not loaded when adding vlan through ovs (ovs-vsctl)

Michael Shteinbok michaelsh86 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 28 14:03:42 UTC 2018


Jiri,
I am not sure it would be simple to move the add_offload to vlan_Core.c as
the add_offload should happen once.
in vlan.c it's done as part of module init but in vlan_core.c we are not
initializing any model and making some logic for doing that once looks
awkward to me.
Why can't we just load the module (8021q) once  a vlan interface is added
via OVS?


‫בתאריך יום ה׳, 25 באוק׳ 2018 ב-15:15 מאת ‪Jiri Pirko‬‏ <‪jiri at resnulli.us
‬‏>:‬

> Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 01:34:04PM CEST, michaelsh86 at gmail.com wrote:
> >I'v used ftrace to see which paths we take in the kernel.
> >I remind you that the packet (in my scenario) looks like the following:
> >ETH | IP | UDP | VXLAN | L2 | VLAN | IP | TCP | payload
> >
> >When 8021q is not loaded:
> >dev_gro_receive <-napi_gro_receive
> >inet_gro_receive <-dev_gro_receive
> >udp4_gro_receive <-inet_gro_receive
> >udp_gro_receive <-udp4_gro_receive
> >udp4_lib_lookup_skb <-udp_gro_receive
> >__udp4_lib_lookup <-udp4_lib_lookup_skb
> >compute_score <-__udp4_lib_lookup
> >vxlan_gro_receive <-udp_gro_receive
> >__pskb_pull_tail <-vxlan_gro_receive
> >skb_copy_bits <-__pskb_pull_tail
> >eth_gro_receive <-vxlan_gro_receive
> >__pskb_pull_tail <-eth_gro_receive
> >skb_copy_bits <-__pskb_pull_tail
> >gro_find_receive_by_type <-eth_gro_receive
> >netif_receive_skb_internal <-napi_gro_receive
> >ktime_get_real <-netif_receive_skb_internal
> >getnstimeofday64 <-ktime_get_real
> >__getnstimeofday64 <-getnstimeofday64
> >skb_defer_rx_timestamp <-netif_receive_skb_internal
> >classify <-skb_defer_rx_timestamp
> >__netif_receive_skb <-netif_receive_skb_internal
> >__netif_receive_skb_core <-__netif_receive_skb
> >ip_rcv <-__netif_receive_skb_core
> >nf_hook_slow <-ip_rcv
> >nf_iterate <-nf_hook_slow
> >ipv4_conntrack_defrag <-nf_iterate
> >ipv4_conntrack_in <-nf_iterate
> >
> >When 8021q was loaded manually:
> >
> >
> >inet_gro_receive <-dev_gro_receive
> >classify <-skb_clone_tx_timestamp
> >udp4_gro_receive <-inet_gro_receive
> >_raw_spin_lock <-sch_direct_xmit
> >udp_gro_receive <-udp4_gro_receive
> >udp4_lib_lookup_skb <-udp_gro_receive
> >local_bh_enable <-__dev_queue_xmit
> >__udp4_lib_lookup <-udp4_lib_lookup_skb
> >__local_bh_enable_ip <-local_bh_enable
> >compute_score <-__udp4_lib_lookup
> >local_bh_enable <-ip_finish_output
> >vxlan_gro_receive <-udp_gro_receive
> >__local_bh_enable_ip <-local_bh_enable
> >__pskb_pull_tail <-vxlan_gro_receive
> >skb_copy_bits <-__pskb_pull_tail
> >local_bh_enable <-__dev_queue_xmit
> >eth_gro_receive <-vxlan_gro_receive
> >__local_bh_enable_ip <-local_bh_enable
> >__pskb_pull_tail <-eth_gro_receive
> >skb_copy_bits <-__pskb_pull_tail
> >gro_find_receive_by_type <-eth_gro_receive
> >local_bh_enable <-__dev_queue_xmit
> >__local_bh_enable_ip <-local_bh_enable
> >vlan_gro_receive <-eth_gro_receive
> >__pskb_pull_tail <-vlan_gro_receive
> >local_bh_enable <-ip_finish_output
> >skb_copy_bits <-__pskb_pull_tail
> >__local_bh_enable_ip <-local_bh_enable
> >gro_find_receive_by_type <-vlan_gro_receive
> >inet_gro_receive <-vlan_gro_receive
> >kfree_skb_partial <-tcp_rcv_established
> >__pskb_pull_tail <-inet_gro_receive
> >skb_release_all <-kfree_skb_partial
> >skb_copy_bits <-__pskb_pull_tail
> >skb_release_head_state <-skb_release_all
> >skb_release_data <-skb_release_all
> >tcp4_gro_receive <-inet_gro_receive
> >tcp_gro_receive <-tcp4_gro_receive
> >put_page <-skb_release_data
> >
> >You can see that eth_gro_receive calls vlan_gro_recieve when 8021q module
> >is loaded and then performs ding gro_receive for the next layers as well
> >(inet, tcp), whereas on default scenario where 8021q is not loaded the
> vlan
> >device ndo cannot be used.
>
> Ah, got it.
>
> What happens is that during the module load, vlan_proto_init() registers
> vlan_packet_offloads:
>
>         for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(vlan_packet_offloads); i++)
>                 dev_add_offload(&vlan_packet_offloads[i]);
>
> I think that it would make sense to move this and the related code
> to net/8021q/vlan_core.c
> Then the offloads will be there regardless if the vlan module is loaded
> or not.
>
> Please feel free to spin-up a patch, will be more than happy to review
> it. Thanks!
>
> Jiri
>
>
>
> >
> >‫בתאריך יום ה׳, 25 באוק׳ 2018 ב-9:40 מאת ‪Jiri Pirko‬‏ <‪jiri at resnulli.us
> >‬‏>:‬
> >
> >> Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 10:12:54PM CEST, michaelsh86 at gmail.com wrote:
> >> >Hi,
> >> >I noticed that there is a performance issue when running traffic on a
> vlan
> >> >interface that was created by OVS.
> >> >If we create a bridge with a vlan interface, the 8021q module is not
> >> loaded.
> >> >Then when packets with a 8021q tag arrives, the linux stack can't use
> the
> >> >vlan ndos (such as gro_recieve) since there is no such vlan device.
> >> >If I perform the same test after loading the 8021q module, I get 2x-5x
> >> >better performance.
> >>
> >> Could you please describe why exacly do you think you see this increase?
> >>
> >>
> >> >I personally test that using tunnels (vxlan) but I think the issue
> exists
> >> >even without the tunnel.
> >> >
> >> >*Creating a bridge and vlan interface:*
> >> >ovs-vsctl --no-wait add-br br_0
> >> >ip link set br_0 up
> >> >ovs-vsctl --no-wait add-port br_0 ens5f0
> >> >ovs-vsctl --no-wait add-port br_0 vlan10 tag=10 -- set interface vlan10
> >> >type=internal
> >> >ip link set vlan10 up
> >> >ip addr add <ip> dev vlan10
> >> >
> >> >run traffic (netperf on the vlan10 interface) and see the result.
> >> >Then do 'modprobe 8021q' and perform the same test -> you will see much
> >> >better numbers.
> >> >
> >> >I am suggesting to load 80021q module once vlan interface is added
> through
> >> >ovs.
> >> >similarly as a vlan interface would be created using 'ip link'.
> >> >
> >> >Michael
> >>
>
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