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Bug 1558567

Summary: OVS jumbo support enables scatter
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Pablo Cascon (Netronome) <pablo.cascon>
Component: openvswitchAssignee: Pablo Cascon (Netronome) <pablo.cascon>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: ovs-qe
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Version: 7.5CC: atragler, echaudro, louis.peens, simon.horman
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Description Pablo Cascon (Netronome) 2018-03-20 13:56:47 UTC
Description of problem:

Issue was discovered while running the VSPerf tests with OVS-DPDK with Netronome cards. For some reason the jumbo support turns on scatter and that happens not to be supported by the NFP PMD

static int
dpdk_eth_dev_queue_setup(struct netdev_dpdk *dev, int n_rxq, int n_txq)
{
    int diag = 0;
    int i;
    struct rte_eth_conf conf = port_conf;

    /* For some NICs (e.g. Niantic), scatter_rx mode needs to be explicitly
     * enabled. */
    if (dev->mtu > ETHER_MTU) {
        conf.rxmode.enable_scatter = 1;
    }

This change in SPECS/openvswitch.spec helps:

%build
%if 0%{?commit0:1}
# fix the snapshot unreleased version to be the released one.
sed -i.old -e "s/^AC_INIT(openvswitch,.*,/AC_INIT(openvswitch, %{version},/" configure.ac
%endif
+sed -i "s/enable_scatter\ =\ 1/enable_scatter\ =\ 0/g" lib/netdev-dpdk.c
./boot.sh

How reproducible:
Always happens

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run jumbo test

Actual results:
Error message:
dpdk|INFO|PMD: nfp_net_configure(): Scatter not supported

Expected results:
No error message and the test passes

Comment 3 Pablo Cascon (Netronome) 2018-04-10 10:09:21 UTC
Patch posted at https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2018-April/345901.html . Will update here once/if upstream and request a backport into RHEL OVS package

Comment 4 Pablo Cascon (Netronome) 2018-05-15 09:34:00 UTC
Issue fixed in:

commit 65a87968f4cfd9cf7a433a3156d98118078f9e4e
Author: Pablo Cascón <pablo.cascon>
Date:   Fri Apr 27 17:40:49 2018 +0100

    netdev-dpdk: don't enable scatter for jumbo RX support for nfp
    
    Currently to RX jumbo packets fails for NICs not supporting scatter.
    Scatter is not strictly needed for jumbo RX support. This change fixes
    the issue by not enabling scatter only for the PMD/NIC known not to
    need it to support jumbo RX.
    
    Note: this change is temporary and not needed for later releases OVS/DPDK
    
    Reported-by: Louis Peens <louis.peens>
    Signed-off-by: Pablo Cascón <pablo.cascon>
    Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman>
    Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor>
    Signed-off-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes>

Comment 5 Eelco Chaudron 2018-05-15 11:21:59 UTC
Pablo can you request this to be part of 17.11 latest

Comment 6 Eelco Chaudron 2018-05-29 12:24:18 UTC
This has been fixed as part of BZ 1578324, and is available in openvswitch-2.9.0-41.el7fdn