[PATCH] net/mlx5: set correct priority for meter policy

Patrick Robb probb at iol.unh.edu
Fri Mar 1 17:14:04 CET 2024


The Community CI Testing Lab had an infra failure this morning and some
patches including yours were affected with false failures. The issue is now
resolved and we are rerunning the tests in question for all patches
submitted today.

On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 3:46 AM Shun Hao <shunh at nvidia.com> wrote:

> Currently a meter policy's flows are always using the same priority for
> all colors, so the red color flow might be before green/yellow ones.
> This will impact the performance cause green/yellow packets will check
> red flow first and got miss, then match green/yellow flows, introducing
> more hops.
>
> This patch fixes this by giving the same priority to flows for all
> colors.
>
> Fixes: 363db9b00f ("net/mlx5: handle yellow case in default meter policy")
> CC: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Shun Hao <shunh at nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bingz at nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_dv.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_dv.c
> b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_dv.c
> index 18f09b22be..f1584ed6e0 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_dv.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_dv.c
> @@ -17922,9 +17922,8 @@ __flow_dv_create_policy_matcher(struct rte_eth_dev
> *dev,
>                 }
>         }
>         tbl_data = container_of(tbl_rsc, struct mlx5_flow_tbl_data_entry,
> tbl);
> -       if (priority < RTE_COLOR_RED)
> -               flow_dv_match_meta_reg(matcher.mask.buf,
> -                       (enum modify_reg)color_reg_c_idx, color_mask,
> color_mask);
> +       flow_dv_match_meta_reg(matcher.mask.buf,
> +               (enum modify_reg)color_reg_c_idx, color_mask, color_mask);
>         matcher.priority = priority;
>         matcher.crc = rte_raw_cksum((const void *)matcher.mask.buf,
>                                     matcher.mask.size);
> @@ -17975,7 +17974,6 @@ __flow_dv_create_domain_policy_rules(struct
> rte_eth_dev *dev,
>         int i;
>         int ret = mlx5_flow_get_reg_id(dev, MLX5_MTR_COLOR, 0, &flow_err);
>         struct mlx5_sub_policy_color_rule *color_rule;
> -       bool svport_match;
>         struct mlx5_sub_policy_color_rule *tmp_rules[RTE_COLORS] = {NULL};
>
>         if (ret < 0)
> @@ -18011,10 +18009,9 @@ __flow_dv_create_domain_policy_rules(struct
> rte_eth_dev *dev,
>                 /* No use. */
>                 attr.priority = i;
>                 /* Create matchers for colors. */
> -               svport_match = (i != RTE_COLOR_RED) ? match_src_port :
> false;
>                 if (__flow_dv_create_policy_matcher(dev, color_reg_c_idx,
>                                 MLX5_MTR_POLICY_MATCHER_PRIO, sub_policy,
> -                               &attr, svport_match, NULL,
> +                               &attr, match_src_port, NULL,
>                                 &color_rule->matcher, &flow_err)) {
>                         DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to create color%u matcher.",
> i);
>                         goto err_exit;
> @@ -18024,7 +18021,7 @@ __flow_dv_create_domain_policy_rules(struct
> rte_eth_dev *dev,
>                                 color_reg_c_idx, (enum rte_color)i,
>                                 color_rule->matcher,
>                                 acts[i].actions_n, acts[i].dv_actions,
> -                               svport_match, NULL, &color_rule->rule,
> +                               match_src_port, NULL, &color_rule->rule,
>                                 &attr)) {
>                         DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to create color%u rule.", i);
>                         goto err_exit;
> @@ -18907,7 +18904,7 @@ flow_dv_meter_hierarchy_rule_create(struct
> rte_eth_dev *dev,
>         struct {
>                 struct mlx5_flow_meter_policy *fm_policy;
>                 struct mlx5_flow_meter_info *next_fm;
> -               struct mlx5_sub_policy_color_rule
> *tag_rule[MLX5_MTR_RTE_COLORS];
> +               struct mlx5_sub_policy_color_rule *tag_rule[RTE_COLORS];
>         } fm_info[MLX5_MTR_CHAIN_MAX_NUM] = { {0} };
>         uint32_t fm_cnt = 0;
>         uint32_t i, j;
> @@ -18941,14 +18938,22 @@ flow_dv_meter_hierarchy_rule_create(struct
> rte_eth_dev *dev,
>                 mtr_policy = fm_info[i].fm_policy;
>                 rte_spinlock_lock(&mtr_policy->sl);
>                 sub_policy = mtr_policy->sub_policys[domain][0];
> -               for (j = 0; j < MLX5_MTR_RTE_COLORS; j++) {
> +               for (j = 0; j < RTE_COLORS; j++) {
>                         uint8_t act_n = 0;
> -                       struct mlx5_flow_dv_modify_hdr_resource
> *modify_hdr;
> +                       struct mlx5_flow_dv_modify_hdr_resource
> *modify_hdr = NULL;
>                         struct mlx5_flow_dv_port_id_action_resource
> *port_action;
> +                       uint8_t fate_action;
>
> -                       if (mtr_policy->act_cnt[j].fate_action !=
> MLX5_FLOW_FATE_MTR &&
> -                           mtr_policy->act_cnt[j].fate_action !=
> MLX5_FLOW_FATE_PORT_ID)
> -                               continue;
> +                       if (j == RTE_COLOR_RED) {
> +                               fate_action = MLX5_FLOW_FATE_DROP;
> +                       } else {
> +                               fate_action =
> mtr_policy->act_cnt[j].fate_action;
> +                               modify_hdr =
> mtr_policy->act_cnt[j].modify_hdr;
> +                               if (fate_action != MLX5_FLOW_FATE_MTR &&
> +                                   fate_action != MLX5_FLOW_FATE_PORT_ID
> &&
> +                                   fate_action != MLX5_FLOW_FATE_DROP)
> +                                       continue;
> +                       }
>                         color_rule = mlx5_malloc(MLX5_MEM_ZERO,
>                                                  sizeof(struct
> mlx5_sub_policy_color_rule),
>                                                  0, SOCKET_ID_ANY);
> @@ -18960,9 +18965,8 @@ flow_dv_meter_hierarchy_rule_create(struct
> rte_eth_dev *dev,
>                                 goto err_exit;
>                         }
>                         color_rule->src_port = src_port;
> -                       modify_hdr = mtr_policy->act_cnt[j].modify_hdr;
>                         /* Prepare to create color rule. */
> -                       if (mtr_policy->act_cnt[j].fate_action ==
> MLX5_FLOW_FATE_MTR) {
> +                       if (fate_action == MLX5_FLOW_FATE_MTR) {
>                                 next_fm = fm_info[i].next_fm;
>                                 if (mlx5_flow_meter_attach(priv, next_fm,
> &attr, error)) {
>                                         mlx5_free(color_rule);
> @@ -18989,7 +18993,7 @@ flow_dv_meter_hierarchy_rule_create(struct
> rte_eth_dev *dev,
>                                 }
>                                 acts.dv_actions[act_n++] =
> tbl_data->jump.action;
>                                 acts.actions_n = act_n;
> -                       } else {
> +                       } else if (fate_action == MLX5_FLOW_FATE_PORT_ID) {
>                                 port_action =
>
> mlx5_ipool_get(priv->sh->ipool[MLX5_IPOOL_PORT_ID],
>
>  mtr_policy->act_cnt[j].rix_port_id_action);
> @@ -19002,6 +19006,9 @@ flow_dv_meter_hierarchy_rule_create(struct
> rte_eth_dev *dev,
>                                         acts.dv_actions[act_n++] =
> modify_hdr->action;
>                                 acts.dv_actions[act_n++] =
> port_action->action;
>                                 acts.actions_n = act_n;
> +                       } else {
> +                               acts.dv_actions[act_n++] =
> mtr_policy->dr_drop_action[domain];
> +                               acts.actions_n = act_n;
>                         }
>                         fm_info[i].tag_rule[j] = color_rule;
>                         TAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(&sub_policy->color_rules[j],
> color_rule, next_port);
> @@ -19033,7 +19040,7 @@ flow_dv_meter_hierarchy_rule_create(struct
> rte_eth_dev *dev,
>                 mtr_policy = fm_info[i].fm_policy;
>                 rte_spinlock_lock(&mtr_policy->sl);
>                 sub_policy = mtr_policy->sub_policys[domain][0];
> -               for (j = 0; j < MLX5_MTR_RTE_COLORS; j++) {
> +               for (j = 0; j < RTE_COLORS; j++) {
>                         color_rule = fm_info[i].tag_rule[j];
>                         if (!color_rule)
>                                 continue;
> --
> 2.20.0
>
>
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