Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] sfc: enable 4-tuple UDP RSS hashing

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 18:51:15 +0000

> On 09/11/16 18:09, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
>> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 13:02:05 +0000
>>
>>> On 07/11/16 18:20, David Miller wrote:
>>>> From: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
>>>> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 22:10:31 +0000
>>>>
>>>>> EF10 based NICs have configurable RSS hash fields, and can be made to take the
>>>>> ports into the hash on UDP (they already do so for TCP).  This patch series
>>>>> enables this, in order to improve spreading of UDP traffic.
>>>> What does the chip do with fragmented traffic?
>>> Only the first fragment will be considered UDP, it will treat the rest as "other
>>> IP" and 2-tuple hash them, probably hitting a different queue.
>>>
>>> My understanding is that while that will reduce performance, that shouldn't be a
>>> problem as performance-sensitive users will avoid fragmentation anyway.
>>> It could also lead to out-of-order packet delivery, but it's UDP so that's
>>> supposed to be OK.
>> Our software hashing never tries to inspect the ports for fragmented
>> frames.  And I'm pretty sure this is intentional.
>>
>> We should minimize the difference between what we do in software, which
>> we fully control, and what we ask the hardware to offload for us.
>>
>> If you can't configure the chip to skip the ports for fragmented frames
>> than I'm going to ask you to drop this.
> I just checked and it turns out I was mistaken, we don't treat the first fragment
> differently after all, we skip the ports for all fragments including the first.
> Sorry for the misinformation.

That's more in line with what is expected, series applied, thanks.