Panasas was seeing a higher-than-expected number of link-flap events.
After joint debugging with the switch vendor, we determined there were
problems on both sides; either of which might cause the occasional
event, but together caused lots of them.
On the switch side, an internal queuing issue was causing LACP PDUs --
which should be sent every second, in short-timeout mode -- to sometimes
be sent slightly later than they should have been. In some cases, two
successive PDUs were late, but we never saw three late PDUs in a row.
On the FreeBSD side, we saw a link-flap event every time there were two
late PDUs, while the spec says that it takes *three* seconds of downtime
to trigger that event. It turns out that if a PDU was received shortly
before the timer code was run, it would decrement less than a full
second after the PDU arrived. Then two delayed PDUs would cause two
additional decrements, causing it to reach zero less than three seconds
after the most-recent on-time PDU.
The solution is to note the time a PDU arrives, and only decrement if at
least a full second has elapsed since then.
Reported by: Greg Foster <gfoster@panasas.com>
Reviewed by: gallatin
Tested by: Greg Foster <gfoster@panasas.com>
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Panasas
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35070
When links come and go, lacp goes into a "suppress distributing" mode
where it drops traffic for 3 seconds. When in this mode, lagg/lacp
historiclally drops traffic with ENETDOWN. That return value causes TCP
to close any connection where it gets that value back from the lower
parts of the stack. This means that any TCP connection with active
traffic during a 3-second windown when an LACP link comes or goes
would get closed.
TCP treats return values of ENOBUFS as transient errors, and re-schedules
transmission later. So rather than returning ENETDOWN, lets
return ENOBUFS instead. This allows TCP connections to be preserved.
I've tested this by repeatedly bouncing links on a Netlfix CDN server
under a moderate (20Gb/s) load and overved ENOBUFS reported back to
the TCP stack (as reported by a RACK TCP sysctl).
Reviewed by: jhb, jtl, rrs
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27188
When I did the use_numa support, I missed the fact that there is
a separate hash function for send tag nic selection. So when
use_numa is enabled, ktls offload does not work properly, as it
does not reliably allocate a send tag on the proper egress nic
since different egress nics are selected for send-tag allocation
and packet transmit. To fix this, this change:
- refectors lacp_select_tx_port_by_hash() and
lacp_select_tx_port() to make lacp_select_tx_port_by_hash()
always called by lacp_select_tx_port()
- pre-shifts flowids to convert them to hashes when calling lacp_select_tx_port_by_hash()
- adds a numa_domain field to if_snd_tag_alloc_params
- plumbs the numa domain into places where we allocate send tags
In testing with NIC TLS setup on a NUMA machine, I see thousands
of output errors before the change when enabling
kern.ipc.tls.ifnet.permitted=1. After the change, I see no
errors, and I see the NIC sysctl counters showing active TLS
offload sessions.
Reviewed by: rrs, hselasky, jhb
Sponsored by: Netflix
KTLS adds support for in-kernel framing and encryption of Transport
Layer Security (1.0-1.2) data on TCP sockets. KTLS only supports
offload of TLS for transmitted data. Key negotation must still be
performed in userland. Once completed, transmit session keys for a
connection are provided to the kernel via a new TCP_TXTLS_ENABLE
socket option. All subsequent data transmitted on the socket is
placed into TLS frames and encrypted using the supplied keys.
Any data written to a KTLS-enabled socket via write(2), aio_write(2),
or sendfile(2) is assumed to be application data and is encoded in TLS
frames with an application data type. Individual records can be sent
with a custom type (e.g. handshake messages) via sendmsg(2) with a new
control message (TLS_SET_RECORD_TYPE) specifying the record type.
At present, rekeying is not supported though the in-kernel framework
should support rekeying.
KTLS makes use of the recently added unmapped mbufs to store TLS
frames in the socket buffer. Each TLS frame is described by a single
ext_pgs mbuf. The ext_pgs structure contains the header of the TLS
record (and trailer for encrypted records) as well as references to
the associated TLS session.
KTLS supports two primary methods of encrypting TLS frames: software
TLS and ifnet TLS.
Software TLS marks mbufs holding socket data as not ready via
M_NOTREADY similar to sendfile(2) when TLS framing information is
added to an unmapped mbuf in ktls_frame(). ktls_enqueue() is then
called to schedule TLS frames for encryption. In the case of
sendfile_iodone() calls ktls_enqueue() instead of pru_ready() leaving
the mbufs marked M_NOTREADY until encryption is completed. For other
writes (vn_sendfile when pages are available, write(2), etc.), the
PRUS_NOTREADY is set when invoking pru_send() along with invoking
ktls_enqueue().
A pool of worker threads (the "KTLS" kernel process) encrypts TLS
frames queued via ktls_enqueue(). Each TLS frame is temporarily
mapped using the direct map and passed to a software encryption
backend to perform the actual encryption.
(Note: The use of PHYS_TO_DMAP could be replaced with sf_bufs if
someone wished to make this work on architectures without a direct
map.)
KTLS supports pluggable software encryption backends. Internally,
Netflix uses proprietary pure-software backends. This commit includes
a simple backend in a new ktls_ocf.ko module that uses the kernel's
OpenCrypto framework to provide AES-GCM encryption of TLS frames. As
a result, software TLS is now a bit of a misnomer as it can make use
of hardware crypto accelerators.
Once software encryption has finished, the TLS frame mbufs are marked
ready via pru_ready(). At this point, the encrypted data appears as
regular payload to the TCP stack stored in unmapped mbufs.
ifnet TLS permits a NIC to offload the TLS encryption and TCP
segmentation. In this mode, a new send tag type (IF_SND_TAG_TYPE_TLS)
is allocated on the interface a socket is routed over and associated
with a TLS session. TLS records for a TLS session using ifnet TLS are
not marked M_NOTREADY but are passed down the stack unencrypted. The
ip_output_send() and ip6_output_send() helper functions that apply
send tags to outbound IP packets verify that the send tag of the TLS
record matches the outbound interface. If so, the packet is tagged
with the TLS send tag and sent to the interface. The NIC device
driver must recognize packets with the TLS send tag and schedule them
for TLS encryption and TCP segmentation. If the the outbound
interface does not match the interface in the TLS send tag, the packet
is dropped. In addition, a task is scheduled to refresh the TLS send
tag for the TLS session. If a new TLS send tag cannot be allocated,
the connection is dropped. If a new TLS send tag is allocated,
however, subsequent packets will be tagged with the correct TLS send
tag. (This latter case has been tested by configuring both ports of a
Chelsio T6 in a lagg and failing over from one port to another. As
the connections migrated to the new port, new TLS send tags were
allocated for the new port and connections resumed without being
dropped.)
ifnet TLS can be enabled and disabled on supported network interfaces
via new '[-]txtls[46]' options to ifconfig(8). ifnet TLS is supported
across both vlan devices and lagg interfaces using failover, lacp with
flowid enabled, or lacp with flowid enabled.
Applications may request the current KTLS mode of a connection via a
new TCP_TXTLS_MODE socket option. They can also use this socket
option to toggle between software and ifnet TLS modes.
In addition, a testing tool is available in tools/tools/switch_tls.
This is modeled on tcpdrop and uses similar syntax. However, instead
of dropping connections, -s is used to force KTLS connections to
switch to software TLS and -i is used to switch to ifnet TLS.
Various sysctls and counters are available under the kern.ipc.tls
sysctl node. The kern.ipc.tls.enable node must be set to true to
enable KTLS (it is off by default). The use of unmapped mbufs must
also be enabled via kern.ipc.mb_use_ext_pgs to enable KTLS.
KTLS is enabled via the KERN_TLS kernel option.
This patch is the culmination of years of work by several folks
including Scott Long and Randall Stewart for the original design and
implementation; Drew Gallatin for several optimizations including the
use of ext_pgs mbufs, the M_NOTREADY mechanism for TLS records
awaiting software encryption, and pluggable software crypto backends;
and John Baldwin for modifications to support hardware TLS offload.
Reviewed by: gallatin, hselasky, rrs
Obtained from: Netflix
Sponsored by: Netflix, Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21277
This change creates an array of port maps indexed by numa domain
for lacp port selection. If we have lacp interfaces in more than
one domain, then we select the egress port by indexing into the
numa port maps and picking a port on the appropriate numa domain.
This is behavior is controlled by the new ifconfig use_numa flag
and net.link.lagg.use_numa sysctl/tunable (both modeled after the
existing use_flowid), which default to enabled.
Reviewed by: bz, hselasky, markj (and scottl, earlier version)
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20060
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
No functional change intended.
- Add RATELIMIT kernel configuration keyword which must be set to
enable the new functionality.
- Add support for hardware driven, Receive Side Scaling, RSS aware, rate
limited sendqueues and expose the functionality through the already
established SO_MAX_PACING_RATE setsockopt(). The API support rates in
the range from 1 to 4Gbytes/s which are suitable for regular TCP and
UDP streams. The setsockopt(2) manual page has been updated.
- Add rate limit function callback API to "struct ifnet" which supports
the following operations: if_snd_tag_alloc(), if_snd_tag_modify(),
if_snd_tag_query() and if_snd_tag_free().
- Add support to ifconfig to view, set and clear the IFCAP_TXRTLMT
flag, which tells if a network driver supports rate limiting or not.
- This patch also adds support for rate limiting through VLAN and LAGG
intermediate network devices.
- How rate limiting works:
1) The userspace application calls setsockopt() after accepting or
making a new connection to set the rate which is then stored in the
socket structure in the kernel. Later on when packets are transmitted
a check is made in the transmit path for rate changes. A rate change
implies a non-blocking ifp->if_snd_tag_alloc() call will be made to the
destination network interface, which then sets up a custom sendqueue
with the given rate limitation parameter. A "struct m_snd_tag" pointer is
returned which serves as a "snd_tag" hint in the m_pkthdr for the
subsequently transmitted mbufs.
2) When the network driver sees the "m->m_pkthdr.snd_tag" different
from NULL, it will move the packets into a designated rate limited sendqueue
given by the snd_tag pointer. It is up to the individual drivers how the rate
limited traffic will be rate limited.
3) Route changes are detected by the NIC drivers in the ifp->if_transmit()
routine when the ifnet pointer in the incoming snd_tag mismatches the
one of the network interface. The network adapter frees the mbuf and
returns EAGAIN which causes the ip_output() to release and clear the send
tag. Upon next ip_output() a new "snd_tag" will be tried allocated.
4) When the PCB is detached the custom sendqueue will be released by a
non-blocking ifp->if_snd_tag_free() call to the currently bound network
interface.
Reviewed by: wblock (manpages), adrian, gallatin, scottl (network)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3687
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
MFC after: 3 months
then drop lock, run the attach routines, and then set it to specific
proto. This removes tons of WITNESS warnings.
- Make lagg protocol attach handlers not failing and allocate memory
with M_WAITOK.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
sysctl tree.
* Create a net.link.lagg.X.lacp node
* Add a debug node under that for tx_test and rx_test
* Add lacp_strict_mode, defaulting to 1
tx_test and rx_test are still a bitmap of unit numbers for now.
At some point it would be nice to create child nodes of the lagg bundle
for each sub-interface, and then populate those with various knobs
and statistics.
Sponsored by: Netflix
this means that it no longer grabs the lagg rwlock. Use two port table arrays
which list the active ports for Tx and switch between them with an atomic op.
Now the lagg rwlock is only exclusively locked for management (ioctls) and
queuing of lacp control frames isnt needed.
of each port and any further packets are blocked, when the all the marker frames
have been returned to us from the remote network device then we can be sure
that all interface queues are empty.
This is needed when a port is added or removed from the aggregation since it
will affect the hash based distribution, if the queues are not empty then a
packet from an existing connection may be placed on a different interface and
arrive out of order. This was previously achieved by suppressing transmission for
1 second, now that there is an active feedback this timeout as been increased
to 3 seconds and used as a fallback.
The name trunk is misused as the networking term trunk means carrying multiple
VLANs over a single connection. The IEEE standard for link aggregation (802.3
section 3) does not talk about 'trunk' at all while it is used throughout IEEE
802.1Q in describing vlans.
The lagg(4) driver provides link aggregation, failover and fault tolerance.
Discussed on: current@
tolerance. This driver allows aggregation of multiple network interfaces as
one virtual interface using a number of different protocols/algorithms.
failover - Sends traffic through the secondary port if the master becomes
inactive.
fec - Supports Cisco Fast EtherChannel.
lacp - Supports the IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol
(LACP) and the Marker Protocol.
loadbalance - Static loadbalancing using an outgoing hash.
roundrobin - Distributes outgoing traffic using a round-robin scheduler
through all active ports.
This code was obtained from OpenBSD and this also includes 802.3ad LACP support
from agr(4) in NetBSD.
