patch 'app/testpmd: fix primary process not polling all queues' has been queued to stable release 22.11.3

Xueming Li xuemingl at nvidia.com
Thu Aug 10 01:47:53 CEST 2023


Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 22.11.3

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 08/11/23. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Also note that after the patch there's a diff of the upstream commit vs the
patch applied to the branch. This will indicate if there was any rebasing
needed to apply to the stable branch. If there were code changes for rebasing
(ie: not only metadata diffs), please double check that the rebase was
correctly done.

Queued patches are on a temporary branch at:
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/log/?h=22.11-staging

This queued commit can be viewed at:
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=22.11-staging&id=16a82d0d1a7bcea2a3bd5d51e6a8700702571b8d

Thanks.

Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>

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>From 16a82d0d1a7bcea2a3bd5d51e6a8700702571b8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jie Hai <haijie1 at huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 17:03:40 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] app/testpmd: fix primary process not polling all queues
Cc: Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>

[ upstream commit 141a520b35f789f37dc06557bc724bf7f0e0a52d ]

Here's how the problem arises.
step1: Start the app.
    dpdk-testpmd -a 0000:35:00.0 -l 0-3 -- -i --rxq=10 --txq=10

step2: Perform the following steps and send traffic. As expected,
queue 7 does not send or receive packets, and other queues do.
    port 0 rxq 7 stop
    port 0 txq 7 stop
    set fwd mac
    start

step3: Perform the following steps and send traffic. All queues
are expected to send and receive packets normally, but that's not
the case for queue 7.
    stop
    port stop all
    port start all
    start
    show port xstats all

In fact, only the value of rx_q7_packets for queue 7 is not zero,
which means queue 7 is enabled for the driver but is not involved
in packet receiving and forwarding by software. If we check queue
state by command 'show rxq info 0 7' and 'show txq info 0 7',
we see queue 7 is started as other queues are.
    Rx queue state: started
    Tx queue state: started
The queue 7 is started but cannot forward. That's the problem.

We know that each stream has a read-only "disabled" field that
control if this stream should be used to forward. This field
depends on testpmd local queue state, please see
commit 3c4426db54fc ("app/testpmd: do not poll stopped queues").
DPDK framework maintains ethdev queue state that drivers reported,
which indicates the real state of queues.

There are commands that update these two kind queue state such as
'port X rxq|txq start|stop'. But these operations take effect only
in one stop-start round. In the following stop-start round, the
preceding operations do not take effect anymore. However, only
the ethdev queue state is updated, causing the testpmd and ethdev
state information to diverge and causing unexpected side effects
as above problem.

There was a similar problem for the secondary process, please see
commit 5028f207a4fa ("app/testpmd: fix secondary process packet
forwarding").

This patch applies its workaround with some difference to the
primary process. Not all PMDs implement rte_eth_rx_queue_info_get and
rte_eth_tx_queue_info_get, however they may support deferred_start
with primary process. To not break their behavior, retain the original
testpmd local queue state for those PMDs.

Fixes: 3c4426db54fc ("app/testpmd: do not poll stopped queues")

Signed-off-by: Jie Hai <haijie1 at huawei.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at amd.com>
---
 app/test-pmd/testpmd.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c b/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c
index b69b248e47..5c1388a8c0 100644
--- a/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c
+++ b/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c
@@ -2355,6 +2355,13 @@ update_rx_queue_state(uint16_t port_id, uint16_t queue_id)
 		ports[port_id].rxq[queue_id].state =
 			rx_qinfo.queue_state;
 	} else if (rc == -ENOTSUP) {
+		/*
+		 * Do not change the rxq state for primary process
+		 * to ensure that the PMDs do not implement
+		 * rte_eth_rx_queue_info_get can forward as before.
+		 */
+		if (rte_eal_process_type() == RTE_PROC_PRIMARY)
+			return;
 		/*
 		 * Set the rxq state to RTE_ETH_QUEUE_STATE_STARTED
 		 * to ensure that the PMDs do not implement
@@ -2380,6 +2387,13 @@ update_tx_queue_state(uint16_t port_id, uint16_t queue_id)
 		ports[port_id].txq[queue_id].state =
 			tx_qinfo.queue_state;
 	} else if (rc == -ENOTSUP) {
+		/*
+		 * Do not change the txq state for primary process
+		 * to ensure that the PMDs do not implement
+		 * rte_eth_tx_queue_info_get can forward as before.
+		 */
+		if (rte_eal_process_type() == RTE_PROC_PRIMARY)
+			return;
 		/*
 		 * Set the txq state to RTE_ETH_QUEUE_STATE_STARTED
 		 * to ensure that the PMDs do not implement
@@ -2447,8 +2461,7 @@ start_packet_forwarding(int with_tx_first)
 		return;
 
 	if (stream_init != NULL) {
-		if (rte_eal_process_type() == RTE_PROC_SECONDARY)
-			update_queue_state();
+		update_queue_state();
 		for (i = 0; i < cur_fwd_config.nb_fwd_streams; i++)
 			stream_init(fwd_streams[i]);
 	}
@@ -3211,8 +3224,7 @@ start_port(portid_t pid)
 		pl[cfg_pi++] = pi;
 	}
 
-	if (rte_eal_process_type() == RTE_PROC_SECONDARY)
-		update_queue_state();
+	update_queue_state();
 
 	if (at_least_one_port_successfully_started && !no_link_check)
 		check_all_ports_link_status(RTE_PORT_ALL);
-- 
2.25.1

---
  Diff of the applied patch vs upstream commit (please double-check if non-empty:
---
--- -	2023-08-09 21:51:19.067969500 +0800
+++ 0031-app-testpmd-fix-primary-process-not-polling-all-queu.patch	2023-08-09 21:51:18.164352000 +0800
@@ -1 +1 @@
-From 141a520b35f789f37dc06557bc724bf7f0e0a52d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From 16a82d0d1a7bcea2a3bd5d51e6a8700702571b8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
@@ -4,0 +5,3 @@
+Cc: Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>
+
+[ upstream commit 141a520b35f789f37dc06557bc724bf7f0e0a52d ]
@@ -61 +63,0 @@
-Cc: stable at dpdk.org
@@ -70 +72 @@
-index c6ad9b18bf..1fc70650e0 100644
+index b69b248e47..5c1388a8c0 100644
@@ -73 +75 @@
-@@ -2424,6 +2424,13 @@ update_rx_queue_state(uint16_t port_id, uint16_t queue_id)
+@@ -2355,6 +2355,13 @@ update_rx_queue_state(uint16_t port_id, uint16_t queue_id)
@@ -87 +89 @@
-@@ -2449,6 +2456,13 @@ update_tx_queue_state(uint16_t port_id, uint16_t queue_id)
+@@ -2380,6 +2387,13 @@ update_tx_queue_state(uint16_t port_id, uint16_t queue_id)
@@ -101 +103 @@
-@@ -2516,8 +2530,7 @@ start_packet_forwarding(int with_tx_first)
+@@ -2447,8 +2461,7 @@ start_packet_forwarding(int with_tx_first)
@@ -111 +113 @@
-@@ -3280,8 +3293,7 @@ start_port(portid_t pid)
+@@ -3211,8 +3224,7 @@ start_port(portid_t pid)


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