Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 3/5] net: mvpp2: cls: Use RSS contexts to handle RSS tables

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin]

On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 08:52:46PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 03:14:05PM +0200, Matteo Croce wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When git bisect pointed to 895586d5dc32 ("net: mvpp2: cls: Use RSS
> > contexts to handle RSS tables"), which was merged
> > almost an year after d33ec4525007 ("net: mvpp2: add an RSS
> > classification step for each flow"), so I assume that between these
> > two commits either the feature was working or it was disable and we
> > didn't notice
> > 
> > Without knowing what was happening, which commit should my Fixes tag point to?
> 
> It is highly likely that 895586d5dc32 is responsible for this breakage.
> I've been investigating this afternoon, and what I've found, comparing
> a kernel without 895586d5dc32 and with 895586d5dc32 applied is:
> 
> - The table programmed into the hardware via mvpp22_rss_fill_table()
>   appears to be identical with or without the commit.
> 
> - When rxhash is enabled on eth2, mvpp2_rss_port_c2_enable() reports
>   that c2.attr[0] and c2.attr[2] are written back containing:
> 
>    - with 895586d5dc32, failing:    00200000 40000000
>    - without 895586d5dc32, working: 04000000 40000000
> 
> - When disabling rxhash, c2.attr[0] and c2.attr[2] are written back as:
> 
>    04000000 00000000
> 
> The second value represents the MVPP22_CLS_C2_ATTR2_RSS_EN bit, the
> first value is the queue number, which comprises two fields.  The high
> 5 bits are 24:29 and the low three are 21:23 inclusive.  This comes
> from:
> 
>        c2.attr[0] = MVPP22_CLS_C2_ATTR0_QHIGH(qh) |
>                      MVPP22_CLS_C2_ATTR0_QLOW(ql);
> #define     MVPP22_CLS_C2_ATTR0_QHIGH(qh)       (((qh) & 0x1f) << 24)
> #define     MVPP22_CLS_C2_ATTR0_QLOW(ql)        (((ql) & 0x7) << 21)
> 
> So, the working case gives eth2 a queue id of 4.0, or 32 as per
> port->first_rxq, and the non-working case a queue id of 0.1, or 1.
> 
> The allocation of queue IDs seems to be in mvpp2_port_probe():
> 
>         if (priv->hw_version == MVPP21)
>                 port->first_rxq = port->id * port->nrxqs;
>         else
>                 port->first_rxq = port->id * priv->max_port_rxqs;
> 
> Where:
> 
>         if (priv->hw_version == MVPP21)
>                 priv->max_port_rxqs = 8;
>         else
>                 priv->max_port_rxqs = 32;
> 
> Making the port 0 (eth0 / eth1) have port->first_rxq = 0, and port 1
> (eth2) be 32.  It seems the idea is that the first 32 queues belong to
> port 0, the second 32 queues belong to port 1, etc.
> 
> mvpp2_rss_port_c2_enable() gets the queue number from it's parameter,
> 'ctx', which comes from mvpp22_rss_ctx(port, 0).  This returns
> port->rss_ctx[0].
> 
> mvpp22_rss_context_create() is responsible for allocating that, which
> it does by looking for an unallocated priv->rss_tables[] pointer.  This
> table is shared amongst all ports on the CP silicon.
> 
> When we write the tables in mvpp22_rss_fill_table(), the RSS table
> entry is defined by:
> 
> 		u32 sel = MVPP22_RSS_INDEX_TABLE(rss_ctx) |
>                           MVPP22_RSS_INDEX_TABLE_ENTRY(i);
> 
> where rss_ctx is the context ID (queue number) and i is the index in
> the table.
> 
> #define     MVPP22_RSS_INDEX_TABLE_ENTRY(idx)   (idx)
> #define     MVPP22_RSS_INDEX_TABLE(idx)         ((idx) << 8)
> #define     MVPP22_RSS_INDEX_QUEUE(idx)         ((idx) << 16)
> 
> If we look at what is written:
> 
> - The first table to be written has "sel" values of 00000000..0000001f,
>   containing values 0..3. This appears to be for eth1.  This is table 0,
>   RX queue number 0.
> - The second table has "sel" values of 00000100..0000011f, and appears
>   to be for eth2.  These contain values 0x20..0x23.  This is table 1,
>   RX queue number 0.
> - The third table has "sel" values of 00000200..0000021f, and appears
>   to be for eth3.  These contain values 0x40..0x43.  This is table 2,
>   RX queue number 0.
> 
> Okay, so how do queue numbers translate to the RSS table?  There is
> another table - the RXQ2RSS table, indexed by the MVPP22_RSS_INDEX_QUEUE
> field of MVPP22_RSS_INDEX and accessed through the MVPP22_RXQ2RSS_TABLE
> register.  Before 895586d5dc32, it was:
> 
>        mvpp2_write(priv, MVPP22_RSS_INDEX,
>                    MVPP22_RSS_INDEX_QUEUE(port->first_rxq));
>        mvpp2_write(priv, MVPP22_RXQ2RSS_TABLE,
>                    MVPP22_RSS_TABLE_POINTER(port->id));
> 
> and after:
> 
>        mvpp2_write(priv, MVPP22_RSS_INDEX, MVPP22_RSS_INDEX_QUEUE(ctx));
>        mvpp2_write(priv, MVPP22_RXQ2RSS_TABLE, MVPP22_RSS_TABLE_POINTER(ctx));
> 
> So, before the commit, for eth2, that would've contained '32' for the
> index and '1' for the table pointer - mapping queue 32 to table 1.
> Remember that this is queue-high.queue-low of 4.0.
> 
> After the commit, we appear to map queue 1 to table 1.  That again
> looks fine on the face of it.
> 
> Section 9.3.1 of the A8040 manual seems indicate the reason that the
> queue number is separated.  queue-low seems to always come from the
> classifier, whereas queue-high can be from the ingress physical port
> number or the classifier depending on the MVPP2_CLS_SWFWD_PCTRL_REG.
> 
> We set the port bit in MVPP2_CLS_SWFWD_PCTRL_REG, meaning that queue-high
> comes from the MVPP2_CLS_SWFWD_P2HQ_REG() register... and this seems to
> be where our bug comes from.
> 
> mvpp2_cls_oversize_rxq_set() sets this up as:
> 
>         mvpp2_write(port->priv, MVPP2_CLS_SWFWD_P2HQ_REG(port->id),
>                     (port->first_rxq >> MVPP2_CLS_OVERSIZE_RXQ_LOW_BITS));
> 
>         val = mvpp2_read(port->priv, MVPP2_CLS_SWFWD_PCTRL_REG);
>         val |= MVPP2_CLS_SWFWD_PCTRL_MASK(port->id);
>         mvpp2_write(port->priv, MVPP2_CLS_SWFWD_PCTRL_REG, val);
> 
> so, the queue-high for eth2 is _always_ 4, meaning that only queues
> 32 through 39 inclusive are available to eth2.  Yet, we're trying to
> tell the classifier to set queue-high, which will be ignored, to zero.
> 
> So we end up directing traffic from eth2 not to queue 1, but to queue
> 33, and then we tell it to look up queue 33 in the RSS table.  However,
> RSS table has not been programmed for queue 33, and so it ends up
> (presumably) dropping the packets.
> 
> It seems that mvpp22_rss_context_create() doesn't take account of the
> fact that the upper 5 bits of the queue ID can't actually be changed
> due to the settings in mvpp2_cls_oversize_rxq_set(), _or_ it seems
> that mvpp2_cls_oversize_rxq_set() has been missed in this commit.
> Either way, these two functions mutually disagree with what queue
> number should be used.
> 
> So, 895586d5dc32 is indeed the cause of this problem.

Looking deeper into what mvpp2_cls_oversize_rxq_set() and the MTU
validation is doing, it seems that MVPP2_CLS_SWFWD_P2HQ_REG() is
used for at least a couple of things.

So, with the classifier having had RSS enabled and directing eth2
traffic to queue 1, we can not ignore the fact that we may have
packets appearing on queue 32 for this port.

One of the things that queue 32 will be used for is if an over-sized
packet attempts to egress through eth2 - it seems that the A8040 has
the ability to forward frames between its ports.  However, afaik we
don't support that feature, and the kernel restricts the packet size,
so we should never violate the MTU validator and end up with such a
packet.  In any case, _if_ we were to attempt to transmit an oversized
packet, we have no support in the kernel to deal with that appearing
in the port's receive queue.

Maybe it would be safe to clear the MVPP2_CLS_SWFWD_PCTRL_MASK() bit?

My testing seems to confirm my findings above - clearing this bit
means that if I enable rxhash on eth2, the interface can then pass
traffic, as we are now directing traffic to RX queue 1 rather than
queue 33.  Traffic still seems to work with rxhash off as well.

So, I think it's clear where the problem lies, but not what the correct
solution is; someone with more experience of packet classifiers (this
one?) needs to look at this - this is my first venture into these
things, and certainly the first time I've traced through how this is
trying to work (or not)...

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