Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 12:22:56 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Should we enable KERN_TLS on amd64 for FreeBSD 13? Message-ID: <20210108202256.GA7669@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <8eff83e5-49bc-d410-626e-603c03877b80@cs.duke.edu> References: <8eff83e5-49bc-d410-626e-603c03877b80@cs.duke.edu>
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On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 12:26:38PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Kernel TLS (KTLS) support was added roughly a year ago, and provides > an efficient software or hardware accelerated path to have the kernel > (or the NIC) handle TLS crypto. This is quite useful for web and > NFS servers, and provides a huge (2x -> 5x) efficiency gain by > avoiding data copies into userspace for crypto, and potentially > offloading the crypto to hardware. > > KTLS is well tested on amd64, having been used in production at Netflix > for nearly 4 years. The vast majority of Netflix video has been served > via KTLS for the last few years. Its what has allowed us to serve > 100Gb/s on Xeon 2697A cpus for years, and what allows us to serve > nearly 400Gb/s on AMD servers with NICs which support crypto offload. > > I have received a few requests to enable it by default in GENERIC, and > I'd like to get some opinions. > > There are essentially 3 options > > 1) Fully enable KTLS by adding 'options KERN_TLS' to GENERIC, and > flipping kern.ipc.tls.enable=1 > > The advantage of this is that it "just works" out of the box for users, > and for reviewers. > > The drawback is that new code is thrust on unsuspecting users, > potentially exposing them to bugs that we have not found in our > somewhat limited web serving workload. > > 2) Enable KTLS in GENERIC, but leave it turned off by default. > > This option allows users to enable ktls without a rebuild of GENERIC, > but does not enable it by default. So they can enable it if they > know about it, but are protected from bugs. > > The disadvantages of this are that it increases the kernel size > by ~20K, starts up one thread per core on every amd64 machine, > and it adds more required tuning to get good performance from FreeBSD. > > > 3) Continue along with KTLS disabled in GENERIC > > This is the lowest risk, but adds a higher bar for users wanting > to use ktls. > Drew, For those that use a custom kernel configuration, would we need to add 'options KERN_TLS' to our config files, or can a module be loaded from the boot loader (ie. via /boot/loader.conf)? I have no preference between 1 or 2, either seems acceptable to me for those running the bleeding edge. -- Steve
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