[dpdk-users] Issue with IPsec Security Gateway sample application (on VM) at 1Gbps traffic

[Chinmaya Dwibedy]

Hi,


I changed the classify algorithm to RTE_ACL_CLASSIFY_SCALAR via
rte_acl_set_ctx_classify() . Did not find the aforesaid crash issue. How
does DPDK decide the classify method for the given platform (default) at
startup ACL library?  Furthermore how to know which classify method it has
chosen?


The VM where I am running the dpdk application supports SSE/ AVX
instructions set. They why it gets crashed during rte_acl_classify () with
1000 Mbps traffic and 100 IPsec tunnels.


Thank you in advance for support and time.


[root at vpn-server ipsec-secgw]# grep -o sse /proc/cpuinfo

sse

sse

sse

sse

sse

sse

sse

sse

sse

sse

sse

sse

sse

sse

sse

sse

sse

sse

sse

sse

[root at vpn-server ipsec-secgw]# grep -o avx /proc/cpuinfo

avx

avx

avx

avx

avx

avx

avx

avx

[root at vpn-server ipsec-secgw]#



Regards,

Chinmaya

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Chinmaya Dwibedy <ckdwibedy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi ,
>
>
> I am running the IPsec Security Gateway application ( at
> http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/examples/ipsec-secgw) on two VMs.  It
> uses AESNI crypto device.
>
>
> Modified this application to add the Security Associations (SA) as ACL
> rules like Security Policies (SP). I have added 100 entries of SP and SA. I
> am also able to send the UDP traffic (one packet) in each of these tunnels.
> But while sending 1 Gbs traffic (distributed through 100 tunnels) , it is
> getting crashed . Here is the core dump
>
>
>
> Core was generated by `./build/ipsec-secgw -l 0 -n 4 --pci-blacklist
> 0000:00:04.0 -- -p 0x3 --config=('.
>
> Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>
> #0  0x000000000047d8c5 in search_avx2x16 ()
>
> Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install
> glibc-2.18-12.fc20.x86_64 openssl-libs-1.0.1e-37.fc20.x8
>
>                                          6_64 zlib-1.2.8-3.fc20.x86_64
>
> (gdb) bt
>
> #0  0x000000000047d8c5 in search_avx2x16 ()
>
> #1  0x0000000000436955 in process_pkts_outbound (ctx=0x9b3800
> <socket_ctx>, traffic=0x7fff335746d0,
>
>     portid=1 '\001') at /root/dpdk-2.2.0/examples/
> ipsec-secgw/ipsec-secgw.c:551
>
> #2  0x0000000000437055 in process_pkts (ctx=0x9b3800 <socket_ctx>,
> pkts=0x7fff33574eb0, nb_pkts=23 '\027',
>
>     portid=1 '\001') at /root/dpdk-2.2.0/examples/
> ipsec-secgw/ipsec-secgw.c:677
>
> #3  0x0000000000437a08 in main_loop (dummy=0x0) at
> /root/dpdk-2.2.0/examples/ipsec-secgw/ipsec-secgw.c:890
>
> #4  0x00000000004a15f3 in rte_eal_mp_remote_launch ()
>
> #5  0x000000000043a3dd in main (argc=9, argv=0x7fff33575270)
>
>     at /root/dpdk-2.2.0/examples/ipsec-secgw/ipsec-secgw.c:1904
>
> (gdb)
>
>
>
> I am using ESP tunnel mode with AES encryption algorithm and SHA1
> authentication algorithm . Here is the configuration to lunch the
> application ./build/ipsec-secgw  -l 0 -n 4 --pci-blacklist 0000:00:05.0 --
> -p 0x3 --config="(0,0,0),(1,0,0)" -u 0x1 --cdev AESNI --ep0
>
>
> There might be packets drop but it should not crash. Note that, with one
> IPsec tunnel, I do not face this issue. Can anyone please suggest what
> might be the issues behind this crash? Thank you in advance for your time
> and support.
>
>
> Please feel free to let me know if additional information is needed.
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Chinmaya
>