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diff --git a/doc/dev/dpdk.rst b/doc/dev/dpdk.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cdc31a7c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/dev/dpdk.rst @@ -0,0 +1,172 @@ +========================= +Ceph messenger DPDKStack +========================= + +Compiling DPDKStack +=================== + +Ceph dpdkstack is not compiled by default. Therefore, you need to recompile and +enable the DPDKstack component. +Optionally install ``dpdk-devel`` or ``dpdk-dev`` on distros with precompiled DPDK packages, and compile + +.. prompt:: bash $ + + do_cmake.sh -DWITH_DPDK=ON + + +Setting the DPDK Network Adapter +================================ + +Most mainstream NICs support SR-IOV and can be virtualized into multiple VF NICs. +Each OSD uses some dedicated NICs through DPDK. The mon, mgr and client use the PF NICs +through the POSIX protocol stack. + +Load the driver on which DPDK depends: + +.. prompt:: bash # + + modprobe vfio + modprobe vfio_pci + +Configure Hugepage by editing ``/etc/sysctl.conf`` :: + + vm.nr_hugepages = xxx + +Configure the number of VFs based on the number of OSDs: + +.. prompt:: bash # + + echo $numvfs > /sys/class/net/$port/device/sriov_numvfs + +Binding NICs to DPDK Applications: + +.. prompt:: bash # + + dpdk-devbind.py -b vfio-pci 0000:xx:yy.z + + +Configuring OSD DPDKStack +========================== + +By default, the DPDK RTE initialization process requires the root privileges +for accessing various resources in system. To grant the root access to +the ``ceph`` user: + +.. prompt:: bash # + + usermod -G root ceph + +The OSD selects the NICs using ``ms_dpdk_devs_allowlist``: + +#. Configure a single NIC. + + .. code-block:: ini + + ms_dpdk_devs_allowlist=-a 0000:7d:010 + + or + + .. code-block:: ini + + ms_dpdk_devs_allowlist=--allow=0000:7d:010 + +#. Configure the Bond Network Adapter + + .. code-block:: ini + + ms_dpdk_devs_allowlist=--allow=0000:7d:01.0 --allow=0000:7d:02.6 --vdev=net_bonding0,mode=2,slave=0000:7d:01.0,slave=0000:7d:02.6 + +DPDK-related configuration items are as follows: + +.. code-block:: ini + + [osd] + ms_type=async+dpdk + ms_async_op_threads=1 + + ms_dpdk_port_id=0 + ms_dpdk_gateway_ipv4_addr=172.19.36.1 + ms_dpdk_netmask_ipv4_addr=255.255.255.0 + ms_dpdk_hugepages=/dev/hugepages + ms_dpdk_hw_flow_control=false + ms_dpdk_lro=false + ms_dpdk_enable_tso=false + ms_dpdk_hw_queue_weight=1 + ms_dpdk_memory_channel=2 + ms_dpdk_debug_allow_loopback = true + + [osd.x] + ms_dpdk_coremask=0xf0 + ms_dpdk_host_ipv4_addr=172.19.36.51 + public_addr=172.19.36.51 + cluster_addr=172.19.36.51 + ms_dpdk_devs_allowlist=--allow=0000:7d:01.1 + +Debug and Optimization +====================== + +Locate faults based on logs and adjust logs to a proper level: + +.. code-block:: ini + + debug_dpdk=xx + debug_ms=xx + +if the log contains a large number of retransmit messages,reduce the value of ms_dpdk_tcp_wmem. + +Run the perf dump command to view DPDKStack statistics: + +.. prompt:: bash $ + + ceph daemon osd.$i perf dump | grep dpdk + + +if the ``dpdk_device_receive_nombuf_errors`` keeps increasing, check whether the +throttling exceeds the limit: + +.. prompt:: bash $ + + ceph daemon osd.$i perf dump | grep throttle-osd_client -A 7 | grep "get_or_fail_fail" + ceph daemon osd.$i perf dump | grep throttle-msgr_dispatch_throttler -A 7 | grep "get_or_fail_fail" + +if the throttling exceeds the threshold, increase the throttling threshold or +disable the throttling. + +Check whether the network adapter is faulty or abnormal.Run the following +command to obtain the network adapter status and statistics: + +.. prompt:: bash $ + + ceph daemon osd.$i show_pmd_stats + ceph daemon osd.$i show_pmd_xstats + +Some DPDK versions (eg. dpdk-20.11-3.e18.aarch64) or NIC TSOs are abnormal, +try disabling tso: + +.. code-block:: ini + + ms_dpdk_enable_tso=false + +if VF NICs support multiple queues, more NIC queues can be allocated to a +single core to improve performance: + +.. code-block:: ini + + ms_dpdk_hw_queues_per_qp=4 + + +Status and Future Work +====================== + +Compared with POSIX Stack, in the multi-concurrency test, DPDKStack has the same +4K random write performance, 8K random write performance is improved by 28%, and +1 MB packets are unstable. In the single-latency test,the 4K and 8K random write +latency is reduced by 15% (the lower the latency is, the better). + +At a high level, our future work plan is: + + OSD multiple network support (public network and cluster network) + The public and cluster network adapters can be configured.When connecting or + listening,the public or cluster network adapters can be selected based on the + IP address.During msgr-work initialization,initialize both the public and cluster + network adapters and create two DPDKQueuePairs. |