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From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@exchange.microsoft.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: haiyangz@microsoft.com, kys@microsoft.com, olaf@aepfle.de,
	vkuznets@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next,4/4] hv_netvsc: Update netvsc Document for UDP hash level setting
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 19:22:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1503368560-14331-5-git-send-email-haiyangz@exchange.microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1503368560-14331-1-git-send-email-haiyangz@exchange.microsoft.com>

From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>

Update Documentation/networking/netvsc.txt for UDP hash level setting
and related info.

Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/netvsc.txt |   22 +++++++++++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netvsc.txt b/Documentation/networking/netvsc.txt
index 4ddb4e4..fa8d863 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/netvsc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/netvsc.txt
@@ -21,11 +21,23 @@ Features
   --------------------
   Hyper-V supports receive side scaling. For TCP, packets are
   distributed among available queues based on IP address and port
-  number. Current versions of Hyper-V host, only distribute UDP
-  packets based on the IP source and destination address.
-  The port number is not used as part of the hash value for UDP.
-  Fragmented IP packets are not distributed between queues;
-  all fragmented packets arrive on the first channel.
+  number.
+
+  For UDP, we can switch UDP hash level between L3 and L4 by ethtool
+  command. UDP over IPv4 and v6 can be set differently. The default
+  hash level is L4. We currently only allow switching TX hash level
+  from within the guests.
+
+  On Azure, fragmented UDP packets have high loss rate with L4
+  hashing. Using L3 hashing is recommended in this case.
+
+  For example, for UDP over IPv4 on eth0:
+  To include UDP port numbers in hasing:
+        ethtool -N eth0 rx-flow-hash udp4 sdfn
+  To exclude UDP port numbers in hasing:
+        ethtool -N eth0 rx-flow-hash udp4 sd
+  To show UDP hash level:
+        ethtool -n eth0 rx-flow-hash udp4
 
   Generic Receive Offload, aka GRO
   --------------------------------
-- 
1.7.1

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-22  2:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-22  2:22 [PATCH net-next,0/4] hv_netvsc: Ethtool handler to change UDP hash levels Haiyang Zhang
2017-08-22  2:22 ` [PATCH net-next,1/4] hv_netvsc: Clean up unused parameter from netvsc_get_hash() Haiyang Zhang
2017-08-22  2:22 ` [PATCH net-next,2/4] hv_netvsc: Clean up unused parameter from netvsc_get_rss_hash_opts() Haiyang Zhang
2017-08-22  2:22 ` [PATCH net-next,3/4] hv_netvsc: Add ethtool handler to set and get UDP hash levels Haiyang Zhang
2017-08-22  2:22 ` Haiyang Zhang [this message]
2017-08-22 21:08 ` [PATCH net-next,0/4] hv_netvsc: Ethtool handler to change " David Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-08-21 21:55 [PATCH net-next,1/4] hv_netvsc: Clean up unused parameter from netvsc_get_hash() Haiyang Zhang
2017-08-21 21:55 ` [PATCH net-next,4/4] hv_netvsc: Update netvsc Document for UDP hash level setting Haiyang Zhang

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