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Date:      Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:07:07 -0000
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, Slava Shwartsman <slavash@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r341586 - head/sys/dev/mlx5/mlx5_en
Message-ID:  <7cea5305-4136-a0b6-487b-51307b1c6db9@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <bc601976-7d6b-f849-0305-66feb11a7130@selasky.org>
References:  <201812051425.wB5EP38T004562@repo.freebsd.org> <a1ff0879-abae-25c5-9350-809186d2cf85@yandex.ru> <bc601976-7d6b-f849-0305-66feb11a7130@selasky.org>

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On 4/16/19 8:32 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 4/16/19 4:39 PM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
>> On 05.12.2018 17:25, Slava Shwartsman wrote:
>>> Author: slavash
>>> Date: Wed Dec  5 14:25:03 2018
>>> New Revision: 341586
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/341586
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>    mlx5en: Implement backpressure indication.
>>>    
>>>    The backpressure indication is implemented using an unlimited rate type of
>>>    mbuf send tag. When the upper layers typically the socket layer has obtained such
>>>    a tag, it can then query the destination driver queue for the current
>>>    amount of space available in the send queue.
>>>    
>>>    A single mbuf send tag may be referenced multiple times and a refcount has been added
>>>    to the mlx5e_priv structure to track its usage. Because the send tag resides
>>>    in the mlx5e_channel structure, there is no need to wait for refcounts to reach
>>>    zero until the mlx4en(4) driver is detached. The channels structure is persistant
>>>    during the lifetime of the mlx5en(4) driver it belongs to and can so be accessed
>>>    without any need of synchronization.
>>>    
>>>    The mlx5e_snd_tag structure was extended to contain a type field, because there are now
>>>    two different tag types which end up in the driver which need to be distinguished.
>>>    
>>>    Submitted by:   hselasky@
>>>    Approved by:    hselasky (mentor)
>>>    MFC after:      1 week
>>>    Sponsored by:   Mellanox Technologies
>>> @@ -587,27 +609,33 @@ mlx5e_xmit(struct ifnet *ifp, struct mbuf *mb)
>>>   	struct mlx5e_sq *sq;
>>>   	int ret;
>>>   
>>> -	sq = mlx5e_select_queue(ifp, mb);
>>> -	if (unlikely(sq == NULL)) {
>>> -#ifdef RATELIMIT
>>> -		/* Check for route change */
>>> -		if (mb->m_pkthdr.snd_tag != NULL &&
>>> -		    mb->m_pkthdr.snd_tag->ifp != ifp) {
>>> +	if (mb->m_pkthdr.snd_tag != NULL) {
>>> +		sq = mlx5e_select_queue_by_send_tag(ifp, mb);
>>> +		if (unlikely(sq == NULL)) {
>>> +			/* Check for route change */
>>> +			if (mb->m_pkthdr.snd_tag->ifp != ifp) {
>>> +				/* Free mbuf */
>>> +				m_freem(mb);
>>> +
>>> +				/*
>>> +				 * Tell upper layers about route
>>> +				 * change and to re-transmit this
>>> +				 * packet:
>>> +				 */
>>> +				return (EAGAIN);
>>> +			}
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just discovered something strange and found that this commit is the
>> cause.
>> The test system has mlx5en 100G interface. It has two vlans: vlan500 and
>> vlan100.
>> Via vlan500 it receives some packets flows. Then it routes these packets
>> into vlan100.
>> But packets are dropped in mlx5e_xmit() with EAGAIN error code.
>>
>> # dtrace -n 'fbt::ip6_output:return {printf("%d", arg1);}'
>> dtrace: description 'fbt::ip6_output:return ' matched 1 probe
>> CPU     ID                    FUNCTION:NAME
>>   23  54338                ip6_output:return 35
>>   16  54338                ip6_output:return 35
>>   21  54338                ip6_output:return 35
>>   22  54338                ip6_output:return 35
>>   24  54338                ip6_output:return 35
>>   23  54338                ip6_output:return 35
>>   14  54338                ip6_output:return 35
>> ^C
>>
>> # dtrace -n 'fbt::mlx5e_xmit:return {printf("%d", arg1);}'
>> dtrace: description 'fbt::mlx5e_xmit:return ' matched 1 probe
>> CPU     ID                    FUNCTION:NAME
>>   16  69030                mlx5e_xmit:return 35
>>   23  69030                mlx5e_xmit:return 35
>>   26  69030                mlx5e_xmit:return 35
>>   25  69030                mlx5e_xmit:return 35
>>   24  69030                mlx5e_xmit:return 35
>>   21  69030                mlx5e_xmit:return 35
>>   26  69030                mlx5e_xmit:return 35
>> ^C
>>
>> The kernel config is GENERIC.
>> 13.0-CURRENT #9 r345758+82f3d57(svn_head)-dirty
>>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This might be a case where rcvif in the mbuf's pktheader is not cleared 
> before the packet is fed back on the wire.
> 
> John Baldwin is working on the send tags implementation, to eliminate 
> the EAGAIN handling in the network drivers.

I will try to push this branch sooner then since it affects more than just
TLS.  Part of the change includes a new flag we can use to assert that we
aren't just getting a stale rcvif (though there are also now assertions in
ip_output that should catch this case I think).

-- 
John Baldwin





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