Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753469AbaJMJO5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2014 05:14:57 -0400 Received: from szxga01-in.huawei.com ([119.145.14.64]:26987 "EHLO szxga01-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753340AbaJMJOn (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2014 05:14:43 -0400 Message-ID: <543B97F0.6040603@huawei.com> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:14:24 +0800 From: yinpeijun User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Or Gerlitz , CC: , , , , Subject: Re: vxlan gro problem ? References: <5434FA02.8070608@huawei.com> <543ADBA3.5030305@mellanox.com> In-Reply-To: <543ADBA3.5030305@mellanox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.177.19.133] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2014/10/13 3:50, Or Gerlitz wrote: > On 10/8/2014 10:46 AM, yinpeijun wrote: >> Hi all, >> recently Linux 3.14 has been released and I find the networking has added udp gro and vxlan gro funtion, then I use the redhat 7.0(there is also add this funtion) >> to test, I use kernel vxlan module and create a vxlan device then attach the device to ovs bridge , the configure as follow: >> root@25:~$ ip link >> 15: vxlan0: mtu 1450 qdisc noqueue master ovs-system state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT >> link/ether be:e1:ae:3d:8b:f2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff >> 16: vnet0: mtu 1400 qdisc mq master ovs-system state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT qlen 5000 >> root@25:~$ ovs-vsctl show >> aa1294f3-9952-4393-b2b5-54e9a6eb76ee >> Bridge ovs-vx >> Port ovs-vx >> Interface ovs-vx >> type: internal >> Port "vnet0" >> Interface "vnet0" >> Port "vxlan0" >> Interface "vxlan0" >> ovs_version: "2.0.2" >> >> vnet0 is a vm backend device, and the end is the same configuration. then I use netperf to test throughput in vm (netperf -H **** -t TCP_STREAM -l 10 -- -m 1460), >> the result is 3-4 Gbit/sec, the improvement is not obvious, and I also confused there is no aggregation packets (length > mtu) in the end vm. so I want to know what >> wrong ? or how to test the function ? >> > > As things are set in 3.14 and AFAIK also in RHEL 7.0, for GRO/VXLAN to come into play you need to run over a NIC which supports RX checksum offload too, is this the case? > > Also, the configuration you run with isn't the typical play of VXLAN with OVS... I didn't try it out and this week being out to LPC. > > Did you try the usual track of running OVS VXLAN port?e.g as explained in the Example section of [1] > > Or. > > [1] http://community.mellanox.com/docs/DOC-1446 > > Or. > > > > . > thank you for your reply, Gerlitz . my test environment use mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro nic , as I know the nic support Rx checksum offload. but I am not confirm if should I do some special configure? or the nic driver or firmware need update ? also , I have used redhat7.0 ovs vxlan to test with the similar configure as before, but there is also no improvement . the nic infomation: 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27520 Family [ConnectX-3 Pro] root@localhost:~# ethtool -i eth4 driver: mlx4_en version: 2.0(Dec 2011) firmware-version: 2.31.5050 bus-info: 0000:04:00.0 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: yes supports-eeprom-access: no supports-register-dump: no supports-priv-flags: yes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/