Best practices on driver binding for SPDK in production environments
by Lance Hartmann ORACLE
This email to the SPDK list is a follow-on to a brief discussion held during a recent SPDK community meeting (Tue Jun 26 UTC 15:00).
Lifted and edited from the Trello agenda item (https://trello.com/c/U291IBYx/91-best-practices-on-driver-binding-for-spd... <https://trello.com/c/U291IBYx/91-best-practices-on-driver-binding-for-spd...>):
During development many (most?) people rely on the run of SPDK's scripts/setup.sh to perform a number of initializations, among them the unbinding of the Linux kernel nvme driver from NVMe controllers targeted for use by the SPDK and then binding them to either uio_pci_generic or vfio-pci. This script is applicable for development environments, but not targeted for use in productions systems employing the SPDK.
I'd like to confer with my fellow SPDK community members on ideas, suggestions and best practices for handling this driver unbinding/binding. I wrote some udev rules along with updates to some other Linux system conf files for automatically loading either the uio_pci_generic or vfio-pci modules. I also had to update my initramfs so that when the system comes all the way up, the desired NVMe controllers are already bound to the needed driver for SPDK operation. And, as a bonus, it should "just work" when a hotplug occurs as well. However, there may be additional considerations I might have overlooked on which I'd appreciate input. Further, there's the matter of how and whether to semi-automate this configuration via some kind of script and how that might vary according to Linux distro to say nothing of the determination of employing uio_pci_generic vs vfio-pci.
And, now some details:
1. I performed this on an Oracle Linux (OL) distro. I’m currently unaware how and what configuration files might be different depending on the distro. Oracle Linux is RedHat-compatible, so I’m confident my implementation should run similarly on RedHat-based systems, but I’ve yet to delve into other distro’s like Debian, SuSE, etc.
2. In preparation to writing my own udev rules, I unbound a specific NVMe controller from the Linux nvme driver by hand. Then, in another window I launched: "udevadm monitor -k -p” so that I could observe the usual udev events when a NVMe controller is bound to the nvme driver. On my system, I observed four (4) udev kernel events (abbreviated/edited output to avoid this become excessively long):
(Event 1)
KERNEL[382128.187273] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:30:00.0/nvme/nvme0 (nvme)
ACTION=add
DEVNAME=/dev/nvme0
…
SUBSYSTEM=nvme
(Event 2)
KERNEL[382128.244658] bind /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:30:00.0 (pci)
ACTION=bind
DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:30:00.0
DRIVER=nvme
…
SUBSYSTEM=pci
(Event 3)
KERNEL[382130.697832] add /devices/virtual/bdi/259:0 (bdi)
ACTION=add
DEVPATH=/devices/virtual/bdi/259:0
...
SUBSYSTEM=bdi
(Event 4)
KERNEL[382130.698192] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:30:00.0/nvme/nvme0/nvme0n1 (block)
ACTION=add
DEVNAME=/dev/nvme0n1
DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/0000:30:00.0/nvme/nvme0/nvme0n1
DEVTYPE=disk
...
SUBSYSTEM=block
3. My udev rule triggers on (Event 2) above: the bind action. Upon this action, my udev rule appends operations to the special udev RUN variable such that udev will essentially mirror that which is done in the SPDK’s scripts/setup.sh for unbinding from the nvme driver and binding to, in my case, the vfio-pci driver.
4. With my new udev rules in place, I was successful getting specific NVMe controllers (based on bus-device-function) to unbind from the Linux nvme driver and bind to vfio-pci. However, I made a couple of observations in the kernel log (dmesg). In particular, I was drawn to the following for an NVMe controller at BDF: 0000:40:00.0 for which I had a udev rule to unbind from nvme and bind to vfio-pci:
[ 35.534279] nvme nvme1: pci function 0000:40:00.0
[ 37.964945] nvme nvme1: failed to mark controller live
[ 37.964947] nvme nvme1: Removing after probe failure status: 0
One theory I have for the above is that my udev RUN rule was invoked while the nvme driver’s probe() was still running on this controller, and perhaps the unbind request came in before the probe() completed hence this “name1: failed to mark controller live”. This has left lingering in my mind that maybe instead of triggering on (Event 2) when the bind occurs, that perhaps I should instead try to derive a trigger on the “last" udev event, an “add”, where the NVMe namespace’s are instantiated. Of course, I’d need to know ahead of time just how many namespaces exist on that controller if I were to do that so I’d trigger on the last one. I’m wondering if that may help to avoid what looks like a complaint during the middle of probe() of that particular controller. Then, again, maybe I can just safely ignore that and not worry about it at all? Thoughts?
I discovered another issue during this experimentation that is somewhat tangential to this task, but I’ll write a separate email on that topic.
thanks for any feedback,
--
Lance Hartmann
lance.hartmann(a)oracle.com
7 months
Topic from last week's community meeting
by Luse, Paul E
Hi Shuhei,
I was out of town last week and missed the meeting but saw on Trello you had the topic below:
"a few idea: log structured data store , data store with compression, and metadata replication of Blobstore"
Which I'd be pretty interested in working on with you or at least hearing more about it. When you get a chance, no hurry, can you please expand a little on how the conversation went and what you're looking at specifically?
Thanks!
Paul
8 months
Add py-spdk client for SPDK
by We We
Hi, all
I have submitted the py-spdk code on https://review.gerrithub.io/#/c/379741/, please take some time to visit it, I will be very grateful to you.
The py-spdk is client which can help the upper-level app to communicate with the SPDK-based app (such as: nvmf_tgt, vhost, iscsi_tgt, etc.). Should I submit it into the other repo I rebuild rather than SPDK repo? Because I think it is a relatively independent kit upon the SPDK.
If you have some thoughts about the py-spdk, please share with me.
Regards,
Helloway
8 months
Re: [SPDK] anyone ran the SPDK ( app/iscsi_tgt/iscsi_tgt ) with VPP?
by Isaac Otsiabah
Hi Tomasz, I got the SPDK patch. My network topology is simple but making the network ip address accessible to the iscsi_tgt application and to vpp is not working. From my understanding, vpp is started first on the target host and then iscsi_tgt application is started after the network setup is done (please, correct me if this is not the case).
------- 192.168.2.10
| | initiator
-------
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------- 192.168.2.0
|
|
| 192.168.2.20
-------------- vpp, vppctl
| | iscsi_tgt
--------------
Both system have a 10GB NIC
(On target Server):
I set up the vpp environment variables through sysctl command.
I unbind the kernel driver and loaded the DPDK uio_pci_generic driver for the first 10GB NIC (device address= 0000:82:00.0).
That worked so I started the vpp application and from the startup output, the NIC is in used by vpp
[root@spdk2 ~]# vpp -c /etc/vpp/startup.conf
vlib_plugin_early_init:356: plugin path /usr/lib/vpp_plugins
load_one_plugin:184: Loaded plugin: acl_plugin.so (Access Control Lists)
load_one_plugin:184: Loaded plugin: dpdk_plugin.so (Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK))
load_one_plugin:184: Loaded plugin: flowprobe_plugin.so (Flow per Packet)
load_one_plugin:184: Loaded plugin: gtpu_plugin.so (GTPv1-U)
load_one_plugin:184: Loaded plugin: ila_plugin.so (Identifier-locator addressing for IPv6)
load_one_plugin:184: Loaded plugin: ioam_plugin.so (Inbound OAM)
load_one_plugin:114: Plugin disabled (default): ixge_plugin.so
load_one_plugin:184: Loaded plugin: kubeproxy_plugin.so (kube-proxy data plane)
load_one_plugin:184: Loaded plugin: l2e_plugin.so (L2 Emulation)
load_one_plugin:184: Loaded plugin: lb_plugin.so (Load Balancer)
load_one_plugin:184: Loaded plugin: libsixrd_plugin.so (IPv6 Rapid Deployment on IPv4 Infrastructure (RFC5969))
load_one_plugin:184: Loaded plugin: memif_plugin.so (Packet Memory Interface (experimetal))
load_one_plugin:184: Loaded plugin: nat_plugin.so (Network Address Translation)
load_one_plugin:184: Loaded plugin: pppoe_plugin.so (PPPoE)
load_one_plugin:184: Loaded plugin: stn_plugin.so (VPP Steals the NIC for Container integration)
vpp[4168]: load_one_plugin:63: Loaded plugin: /usr/lib/vpp_api_test_plugins/acl_test_plugin.so
vpp[4168]: load_one_plugin:63: Loaded plugin: /usr/lib/vpp_api_test_plugins/dpdk_test_plugin.so
vpp[4168]: load_one_plugin:63: Loaded plugin: /usr/lib/vpp_api_test_plugins/flowprobe_test_plugin.so
vpp[4168]: load_one_plugin:63: Loaded plugin: /usr/lib/vpp_api_test_plugins/gtpu_test_plugin.so
vpp[4168]: load_one_plugin:63: Loaded plugin: /usr/lib/vpp_api_test_plugins/ioam_export_test_plugin.so
vpp[4168]: load_one_plugin:63: Loaded plugin: /usr/lib/vpp_api_test_plugins/ioam_pot_test_plugin.so
vpp[4168]: load_one_plugin:63: Loaded plugin: /usr/lib/vpp_api_test_plugins/ioam_trace_test_plugin.so
vpp[4168]: load_one_plugin:63: Loaded plugin: /usr/lib/vpp_api_test_plugins/ioam_vxlan_gpe_test_plugin.so
vpp[4168]: load_one_plugin:63: Loaded plugin: /usr/lib/vpp_api_test_plugins/kubeproxy_test_plugin.so
vpp[4168]: load_one_plugin:63: Loaded plugin: /usr/lib/vpp_api_test_plugins/lb_test_plugin.so
vpp[4168]: load_one_plugin:63: Loaded plugin: /usr/lib/vpp_api_test_plugins/memif_test_plugin.so
vpp[4168]: load_one_plugin:63: Loaded plugin: /usr/lib/vpp_api_test_plugins/nat_test_plugin.so
vpp[4168]: load_one_plugin:63: Loaded plugin: /usr/lib/vpp_api_test_plugins/pppoe_test_plugin.so
vpp[4168]: load_one_plugin:63: Loaded plugin: /usr/lib/vpp_api_test_plugins/udp_ping_test_plugin.so
vpp[4168]: load_one_plugin:63: Loaded plugin: /usr/lib/vpp_api_test_plugins/vxlan_gpe_ioam_export_test_plugin.so
vpp[4168]: dpdk_config:1240: EAL init args: -c 1 -n 4 --huge-dir /run/vpp/hugepages --file-prefix vpp -w 0000:82:00.0 --master-lcore 0 --socket-mem 64,64
EAL: No free hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB
EAL: VFIO support initialized
DPDK physical memory layout:
Segment 0: IOVA:0x2200000, len:2097152, virt:0x7f919c800000, socket_id:0, hugepage_sz:2097152, nchannel:0, nrank:0
Segment 1: IOVA:0x3e000000, len:16777216, virt:0x7f919b600000, socket_id:0, hugepage_sz:2097152, nchannel:0, nrank:0
Segment 2: IOVA:0x3fc00000, len:2097152, virt:0x7f919b200000, socket_id:0, hugepage_sz:2097152, nchannel:0, nrank:0
Segment 3: IOVA:0x54c00000, len:46137344, virt:0x7f917ae00000, socket_id:0, hugepage_sz:2097152, nchannel:0, nrank:0
Segment 4: IOVA:0x1f2e400000, len:67108864, virt:0x7f8f9c200000, socket_id:1, hugepage_sz:2097152, nchannel:0, nran
STEP1:
Then from vppctl command prompt, I set up ip address for the 10G interface and up it. From vpp, I can ping the initiator machine and vice versa as shown below.
vpp# show int
Name Idx State Counter Count
TenGigabitEthernet82/0/0 1 down
local0 0 down
vpp# set interface ip address TenGigabitEthernet82/0/0 192.168.2.20/24
vpp# set interface state TenGigabitEthernet82/0/0 up
vpp# show int
Name Idx State Counter Count
TenGigabitEthernet82/0/0 1 up
local0 0 down
vpp# show int address
TenGigabitEthernet82/0/0 (up):
192.168.2.20/24
local0 (dn):
/* ping initiator from vpp */
vpp# ping 192.168.2.10
64 bytes from 192.168.2.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=.0779 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=.0396 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=.0316 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.10: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=.0368 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.10: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=.0327 ms
(On Initiator):
/* ping vpp interface from initiator*/
[root@spdk1 ~]# ping -c 2 192.168.2.20
PING 192.168.2.20 (192.168.2.20) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.2.20: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.038 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.20: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.031 ms
STEP2:
However, when I start the iscsi_tgt server, it does not have access to the above 192.168.2.x subnet so I ran these commands on the target server to create veth and then connected it to a vpp host-interface as follows:
ip link add name vpp1out type veth peer name vpp1host
ip link set dev vpp1out up
ip link set dev vpp1host up
ip addr add 192.168.2.201/24 dev vpp1host
vpp# create host-interface name vpp1out
vpp# set int state host-vpp1out up
vpp# set int ip address host-vpp1out 192.168.2.202
vpp# show int addr
TenGigabitEthernet82/0/0 (up):
192.168.2.20/24
host-vpp1out (up):
192.168.2.202/24
local0 (dn):
vpp# trace add af-packet-input 10
/* From host, ping vpp */
[root@spdk2 ~]# ping -c 2 192.168.2.202
PING 192.168.2.202 (192.168.2.202) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.2.202: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.130 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.202: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.067 ms
/* From vpp, ping host */
vpp# ping 192.168.2.201
64 bytes from 192.168.2.201: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=.1931 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.201: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=.1581 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.201: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=.1235 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.201: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=.1032 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.201: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=.0688 ms
Statistics: 5 sent, 5 received, 0% packet loss
>From the target host,I still cannot ping the initiator (192.168.2.10), it does not go through the vpp interface so my vpp interface connection is not correct.
Please, how does one create the vpp host interface and connect it, so that host applications (ie. iscsi_tgt) can communicate in the 192.168.2 subnet? In STEP2, should I use a different subnet like 192.168.3.X and turn on IP forwarding add a route to the routing table?
Isaac
From: Zawadzki, Tomasz [mailto:tomasz.zawadzki@intel.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2018 12:27 AM
To: Isaac Otsiabah <IOtsiabah(a)us.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Harris, James R <james.r.harris(a)intel.com>; Verkamp, Daniel <daniel.verkamp(a)intel.com>; Paul Von-Stamwitz <PVonStamwitz(a)us.fujitsu.com>
Subject: RE: anyone ran the SPDK ( app/iscsi_tgt/iscsi_tgt ) with VPP?
Hello Isaac,
Are you using following patch ? (I suggest cherry picking it)
https://review.gerrithub.io/#/c/389566/
SPDK iSCSI target can be started without specific interface to bind on, by not specifying any target nodes or portal groups. They can be added later via RPC http://www.spdk.io/doc/iscsi.html#iscsi_rpc.
Please see https://github.com/spdk/spdk/blob/master/test/iscsi_tgt/lvol/iscsi.conf for example of minimal iSCSI config.
Suggested flow of starting up applications is:
1. Unbind interfaces from kernel
2. Start VPP and configure the interface via vppctl
3. Start SPDK
4. Configure the iSCSI target via RPC, at this time it should be possible to use the interface configured in VPP
Please note, there is some leeway here. The only requirement is having VPP app started before SPDK app.
Interfaces in VPP can be created (like tap or veth) and configured at runtime, and are available for use in SPDK as well.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Tomek
From: Isaac Otsiabah [mailto:IOtsiabah@us.fujitsu.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 8:47 PM
To: Zawadzki, Tomasz <tomasz.zawadzki(a)intel.com<mailto:tomasz.zawadzki@intel.com>>
Cc: Harris, James R <james.r.harris(a)intel.com<mailto:james.r.harris@intel.com>>; Verkamp, Daniel <daniel.verkamp(a)intel.com<mailto:daniel.verkamp@intel.com>>; Paul Von-Stamwitz <PVonStamwitz(a)us.fujitsu.com<mailto:PVonStamwitz@us.fujitsu.com>>
Subject: anyone ran the SPDK ( app/iscsi_tgt/iscsi_tgt ) with VPP?
Hi Tomaz, Daniel and Jim, i am trying to test VPP so build the VPP on a Centos 7.4 (x86_64), build the SPDK and tried to run the ./app/iscsi_tgt/iscsi_tgt application.
For VPP, first, I unbind the nick from the kernel as and start VPP application.
./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -u 0000:07:00.0
vpp unix {cli-listen /run/vpp/cli.sock}
Unbinding the nic takes down the interface, however, the ./app/iscsi_tgt/iscsi_tgt -m 0x101 application needs an interface to bind to during startup so it fails to start. The information at:
"Running SPDK with VPP
VPP application has to be started before SPDK iSCSI target, in order to enable usage of network interfaces. After SPDK iSCSI target initialization finishes, interfaces configured within VPP will be available to be configured as portal addresses. Please refer to Configuring iSCSI Target via RPC method<http://www.spdk.io/doc/iscsi.html#iscsi_rpc>."
is not clear because the instructions at the "Configuring iSCSI Traget via RPC method" suggest the iscsi_tgt server is running for one to be able to execute the RPC commands but, how do I get the iscsi_tgt server running without an interface to bind on during its initialization?
Please, can anyone of you help to explain how to run the SPDK iscsi_tgt application with VPP (for instance, what should change in iscsi.conf?) after unbinding the nic, how do I get the iscsi_tgt server to start without an interface to bind to, what address should be assigned to the Portal in iscsi.conf.. etc)?
I would appreciate if anyone would help. Thank you.
Isaac
1 year, 8 months
Building spdk on CentOS6
by Shahar Salzman
Hi,
Finally got to looking at support of spdk build on CentOS6, things look good, except for one issue.
spdk is latest 18.01.x version, dpdk is 16.07 (+3 dpdk patches to allow compilation) and some minor patches (mainly some memory configuration stuff), kernel is a patched 4.9.6.
build succeeded except for the usage of the dpdk function pci_vfio_is_enabled.
I had to apply the patch bellow, removing the usage of this function and then compilation completed without any issues.
It seems that I am missing some sort of dpdk configuration as I see that the function is built, but not packaged into the generated archive.
I went back to square one and ran the instructions in http://www.spdk.io/doc/getting_started.html, but I see no mention of dpdk there. Actually the ./configure requires it.
My next step is to use a more recent dpdk, but shouldn't this work with my version? Am I missing some dpdk configuration?
BTW, as we are not using vhost, on our 17.07 version we simply use CONFIG_VHOST=n in order to skip this, but I would be happier if we used a better solution.
Shahar
P.S. Here is the patch to remove use of this function:
diff --git a/lib/env_dpdk/vtophys.c b/lib/env_dpdk/vtophys.c
index 92aa256..f38929f 100644
--- a/lib/env_dpdk/vtophys.c
+++ b/lib/env_dpdk/vtophys.c
@@ -53,8 +53,10 @@
#define SPDK_VFIO_ENABLED 1
#include <linux/vfio.h>
+#if 0
/* Internal DPDK function forward declaration */
int pci_vfio_is_enabled(void);
+#endif
struct spdk_vfio_dma_map {
struct vfio_iommu_type1_dma_map map;
@@ -341,9 +343,11 @@ spdk_vtophys_iommu_init(void)
DIR *dir;
struct dirent *d;
+#if 0
if (!pci_vfio_is_enabled()) {
return;
}
+#endif
dir = opendir("/proc/self/fd");
if (!dir) {
1 year, 9 months
Single-threaded semantics in vbdev
by Andrey Kuzmin
Hi guys,
Working on a vbdev that maintains some global state and underlying data
structures, I decided to explore an SPDKish alternative to the traditional
synchronization, that of the single-threaded semantics where global data
structures are being maintained by a dedicated thread, with requests being
served by message passing to/from that thread.
Coding such a thread against the spdk_allocate_thread() guidelines proved
to be quite straightforward, and I've got it up and running. At the same
time, I'm still unclear as to why I should be essentially duplicating the
features of the pinned SPDK thread, with my gut feeling being that the very
same single-threaded semantics could have been easily achieved by pinning
my execution context to some randomly or round-robin chose pinned thread of
the configured allowed cores mask.
If that gut feeling doesn't fool me, I will appreciate a pointer to any
docs and/or examples showing how one can pin an arbitrary execution context
inside a vbdev to an SPDK native thread (similar to app_start and friends,
I believe), and do polling on that thread/ messaging to/from that thread
similar to what a POSIX thread equipped with spdk thread envelope could do.
Thanks in advance,
Andrey
1 year, 10 months
Howto build with an external env, i.e. alternate CONFIG_ENV
by Lance Hartmann ORACLE
I've been attempting to perform a build of the SPDK that relies on a different env_dpdk implementation, but am running into trouble. The documentation's porting guide is a little sparse, but between that, a fragment from an email to the list:
[...]
You can
point SPDK at a different implementation of include/spdk/env.h through the
configuration script:
./configure --with-env=/path/to/your/lib.a
and some experimentation, I've not deduced exactly how this is supposed to work.
I grabbed a copy of a default built libspdk_env_dpdk.a and placed it in my ~/src/my_own_env_dpdk directory, and ran configure setting '--with-env=~/src/my_own_env_dpdk/libspdk_env_dpdk.a', but a build quickly fails because SPDK_ROOT_DIR/mk/spdk_common.mk attempts to do an include of an env.mk therein:
SPDK_ROOT_DIR/mk/spdk_common.mk:170: ~/src/my_own_env_dpdk/libspdk_env_dpdk.a/env.mk: Not a directory
The porting guide and the behavior of the build would indicate that CONFIG_ENV needs to be a directory.
Am I missing something fundamental in my configuration setup? Or, perhaps, did this work a while back, but over time changes to the build process broke it? I tried fudging with it further by doing things like copying the original SPDK_ROOT_DIR/lib/env_dpdk/env.mk to my own directory (and re-running the configure setting '--with-env' to just the directory, ~/src/my_own_env_dpdk), and kicking off the build. That allows the build to run a lot further, but ultimately it fails later and I would suspect we wouldn't be imposing a requirement that one's own env implementation necessarily has to have an 'env.mk'. Also, there seem to be other elements in the build process later on that don't consider CONFIG_ENV when you get to the linking stages.
Thx,
Lance
1 year, 10 months
How to utilize multiple threads?
by Li Feng
Hi experts,
When I'm digging into SPDK iscsi source codes, I have some doubt about the
threads/reactors.
Look at this example.
Start iscsi target on core 0-7:
```
app/iscsi_tgt/iscsi_tgt -L all -d 1 -m 0xff
```
I can see 8 threads which are polling.
But the acceptor is only running on the core 0, right?
This means all IOs are processed on core 0, no matter how many bdevs are
connecting ?
I can see sending NOP IN is a poller running on all reactors. But this is
not about read/write.
So how to utilize the other threads to maximum the iops and throughput?
Thanks in advance.
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1 year, 10 months
Re: [SPDK] DPDK linking, include question
by Harris, James R
Hi Paul,
Can you provide more context for the linker failure including complete logs? Also, prepending with “Q=” will give the full linker line.
Thanks,
-Jim
From: SPDK <spdk-bounces(a)lists.01.org> on behalf of Paul E Luse <paul.e.luse(a)intel.com>
Reply-To: Storage Performance Development Kit <spdk(a)lists.01.org>
Date: Monday, July 30, 2018 at 12:37 PM
To: Storage Performance Development Kit <spdk(a)lists.01.org>
Subject: [SPDK] DPDK linking, include question
Wrt the crypto module https://review.gerrithub.io/c/spdk/spdk/+/403107 I have the need to make a function call to a function that is declared/defined in rte_cryotp.h- a function called rte_crypto_op_free() (see https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/prog_guide/cryptodev_lib.html section 14.4.4<https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/prog_guide/cryptodev_lib.html%20section%2014.4.4>) as I believe I’ve been freeing crypto operation incorrectly and this is potentially the root cause for a data miscompare I get w/65K & >32 qd loads with bdevper and –verify option.
Anyway, I get a linker error (below) even though I have rte_crypto.h included and rte_cryptodev library is properly linked.
/home/peluse/spdk/lib/bdev/crypto/vbdev_crypto.c:420: undefined reference to `rte_crypto_op_free'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Also note that I make other calls like rte_crypto_op_pool_create() that is defined in the same file but I have no problems ther.
Am I missing something really, really obvious here?
1 year, 10 months
Linux system params affecting SPDK apps
by Lance Hartmann ORACLE
In the past few weeks I received a report from a team using the SPDK where they were experiencing a failure ( "EAL: Cannot init memory") during early memory initialization resulting from a failed mmap() call. This occurred on a system with a large amount of memory (> 180GB). With many thanks to Jim Harris, we learned that bumping up Linux's vm.max_map_count value to a (much) larger value resolved the problem. I'd like to inquire what other types of resource limits others in the SPDK community are adjusting upward to account for large memory use. Has anyone adjusted such parameters in conf files, e.g. /etc/sysctl.d/ or /etc/security/limits.d/ for the systems in the SPDK CI's test pools, and if so, which parameters and respective values are you using?
Related to this topic, I've also heard reported and observed ibv_mr_reg() failures on large memory systems when launching SPDK's nvmf_tgt, and discovered that on those systems they had relatively small memlock limits. I'm not sure how, if at all, this is impacts ibv_mr_reg() calls when the associated regions are backed by hugepages which by their nature are already pinned. If anyone here has any greater knowledge on this specific topic, I'd be very grateful to learn more about this.
thanks much,
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Lance Hartmann
lance.hartmann(a)oracle.com
1 year, 10 months
