[Intel-wired-lan] i40e X722 RSS problem with NAT-Traversal IPsec packets
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Fri May 3 20:59:35 UTC 2019
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 10:19:47AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> The TCP flow could be bypassing RSS and may be using ATR to decide
> where the Rx packets are processed. Now that I think about it there is
> a possibility that ATR could be interfering with the queue selection.
> You might try disabling it by running:
> ethtool --set-priv-flags <iface> flow-director-atr off
Hmm, I thought I had killed ATR (I certainly meant to), but it appears
I had not. I will experiment to see if that makes a difference.
> The problem is RSS can be bypassed for queue selection by things like
> ATR which I called out above. One possibility is that if the
> encryption you were using was leaving the skb->encapsulation flag set,
> and the NIC might have misidentified the packets as something it could
> parse and set up a bunch of rules that were rerouting incoming traffic
> based on outgoing traffic. Disabling the feature should switch off
> that behavior if that is in fact the case.
>
> You are probably fine using 40 queues. That isn't an even power of two
> so it would actually improve the entropy a bit since the lower bits
> don't have a many:1 mapping to queues.
I will let you know Monday how my tests go with atr off. I really
thought that was off already since it was supposed to be. We always
try to turn that off because it does not work well.
--
Len Sorensen
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