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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 10:28:22AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> The thing is the firmware has to have some idea what it is dealing
> with. As far as I know I don't believe port number 4500 is being
> auto-flagged as any special type. In the case of the other tunnel
> types such as VXLAN, NVGRE, and GENEVE the driver has to set a port
> value indicating that the port will receive special handling. If it
> isn't added via i40e_udp_tunnel_add then the firmware/hardware
> shouldn't know anything about the tunnel.

Well that makes some sense.  I was wondering why there didn't seem to
be an on/off switch for that feature.

> It really isn't that unusual of a feature. Many NICs have this
> functionality now. In order to support it we usually have to populate
> the port values for the device so the internal parser knows to expect
> them.
> 
> That is one of the reasons I suggested testing with netperf as I did
> below. Basically if we construct all the outer headers the same as
> your packet we can see if some specific combination is causing a
> parsing issue. I tested the netperf approach on an XL710 and didn't
> see any issues, but perhaps the XL722 is doing something differently.
> 
> Thanks. If nothing else it should make it possible to just use
> tcpreplay if needed to reproduce the issue.

Here is the same packets as before with the link level header included
(I forgot to use -XX rather than -X):

13:43:49.081567 54:ee:75:30:f1:e1 > a4:bf:01:4e:0c:87, ethertype IPv4 (0x0800), length 174: (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 21783, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 160)
    1.99.99.2.4500 > 1.99.99.1.4500: [no cksum] UDP-encap: ESP(spi=0x8de82290,seq=0x6a56), length 132
        0x0000:  a4bf 014e 0c87 54ee 7530 f1e1 0800 4500  ...N..T.u0....E.
        0x0010:  00a0 5517 4000 4011 1c6d 0163 6302 0163  ..U. at .@..m.cc..c
        0x0020:  6301 1194 1194 008c 0000 8de8 2290 0000  c..........."...
        0x0030:  6a56 72da 0734 52f6 406e 9346 f946 c698  jVr..4R. at n.F.F..
        0x0040:  a38c 280c 94da 53e1 91e0 35bf 812a 4500  ..(...S...5..*E.
        0x0050:  6003 ca7d 6872 a50b d41a 5c4d 7c22 3fb8  `..}hr....\M|"?.
        0x0060:  56d8 2a0f bc3f d3a6 5853 682c 914c c1b1  V.*..?..XSh,.L..
        0x0070:  c5c3 94e8 4789 d8b4 4ab4 e5f9 d20a e5ef  ....G...J.......
        0x0080:  de1d 05dd e98a 996b 5c11 6657 b667 6af1  .......k\.fW.gj.
        0x0090:  2a97 694b 16de 74e2 f8fe 13a3 d45e e3e9  *.iK..t......^..
        0x00a0:  f0b1 b83b 99e3 55cb b40b 5ba8 9c23       ...;..U...[..#
13:43:49.081658 a4:bf:01:4e:0c:87 > 54:ee:75:30:f1:e1, ethertype IPv4 (0x0800), length 174: (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 44552, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP (17), length 160)
    1.99.99.1.4500 > 1.99.99.2.4500: [no cksum] UDP-encap: ESP(spi=0x1d4ecfdf,seq=0x6a56), length 132
        0x0000:  54ee 7530 f1e1 a4bf 014e 0c87 0800 4500  T.u0.....N....E.
        0x0010:  00a0 ae08 0000 4011 037c 0163 6301 0163  ...... at ..|.cc..c
        0x0020:  6302 1194 1194 008c 0000 1d4e cfdf 0000  c..........N....
        0x0030:  6a56 28ca 4809 8933 911d f2be 4510 e757  jV(.H..3....E..W
        0x0040:  3885 7d26 5238 8c58 38e3 6c07 2f8e 335a  8.}&R8.X8.l./.3Z
        0x0050:  6d48 2a72 4619 e8a3 c421 bc54 48b2 6239  mH*rF....!.TH.b9
        0x0060:  5e07 7e89 a68e 0161 4e6a 5b6f 8b89 9f53  ^.~....aNj[o...S
        0x0070:  4c40 1c6c d159 60f8 68e7 24db 8b21 2ec2  L at .l.Y`.h.$..!..
        0x0080:  4b67 9b83 643b b0ac 6e2d bf4f 1ee1 9508  Kg..d;..n-.O....
        0x0090:  d1bd dcd4 74ee e4dc 78d0 578a 5905 1f4d  ....t...x.W.Y..M
        0x00a0:  74be e643 910b b4d3 f428 8822 e22b       t..C.....(.".+

I will try to see what I can do with netperf.

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Len Sorensen