Symmetric RSS hash functions are beneficial in applications that monitor
both Tx and Rx packets of the same flow (IDS, software firewalls, ..etc).
Getting all traffic of the same flow on the same RX queue results in
higher CPU cache efficiency.
A NIC that supports "symmetric-xor" can achieve this RSS hash symmetry
by XORing the source and destination fields and pass the values to the
RSS hash algorithm.
The user may request RSS hash symmetry for a specific flow type, via:
# ethtool -N|-U eth0 rx-flow-hash <flow_type> s|d|f|n symmetric-xor
or turn symmetry off (asymmetric) by:
# ethtool -N|-U eth0 rx-flow-hash <flow_type> s|d|f|n
Reviewed-by: Wojciech Drewek <wojciech.dre...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ahmed Zaki <ahmed.z...@intel.com>
---
Documentation/networking/scaling.rst | 6 ++++++
include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h | 21 +++++++++++++--------
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.rst
b/Documentation/networking/scaling.rst
index 92c9fb46d6a2..64f3d7566407 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/scaling.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.rst
@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ by masking out the low order seven bits of the computed hash
for the
packet (usually a Toeplitz hash), taking this number as a key into the
indirection table and reading the corresponding value.
+Some NICs support symmetric RSS hashing where, if the IP (source address,
+destination address) and TCP/UDP (source port, destination port) tuples
+are swapped, the computed hash is the same. This is beneficial in some
+applications that monitor TCP/IP flows (IDS, firewalls, ...etc) and need
+both directions of the flow to land on the same Rx queue (and CPU).
+
Some advanced NICs allow steering packets to queues based on
programmable filters. For example, webserver bound TCP port 80 packets
can be directed to their own receive queue. Such “n-tuple” filters can
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
index f7fba0dc87e5..4e8d38fb55ce 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
@@ -2018,14 +2018,19 @@ static inline int ethtool_validate_duplex(__u8 duplex)
#define FLOW_RSS 0x20000000
/* L3-L4 network traffic flow hash options */
-#define RXH_L2DA (1 << 1)
-#define RXH_VLAN (1 << 2)
-#define RXH_L3_PROTO (1 << 3)
-#define RXH_IP_SRC (1 << 4)
-#define RXH_IP_DST (1 << 5)
-#define RXH_L4_B_0_1 (1 << 6) /* src port in case of TCP/UDP/SCTP */
-#define RXH_L4_B_2_3 (1 << 7) /* dst port in case of TCP/UDP/SCTP */
-#define RXH_DISCARD (1 << 31)
+#define RXH_L2DA (1 << 1)
+#define RXH_VLAN (1 << 2)
+#define RXH_L3_PROTO (1 << 3)
+#define RXH_IP_SRC (1 << 4)
+#define RXH_IP_DST (1 << 5)
+#define RXH_L4_B_0_1 (1 << 6) /* src port in case of
TCP/UDP/SCTP */
+#define RXH_L4_B_2_3 (1 << 7) /* dst port in case of
TCP/UDP/SCTP */
+/* XOR the corresponding source and destination fields of each specified
+ * protocol. Both copies of the XOR'ed fields are fed into the RSS and RXHASH
+ * calculation.
+ */
+#define RXH_SYMMETRIC_XOR (1 << 30)
+#define RXH_DISCARD (1 << 31)
#define RX_CLS_FLOW_DISC 0xffffffffffffffffULL
#define RX_CLS_FLOW_WAKE 0xfffffffffffffffeULL
--
2.34.1
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