Hello,

In CSIT we did not observe booting timeouts but in fact our timeout values are 
not that tight.

Peter Mikus
Engineer - Software
Cisco Systems Limited

-----Original Message-----
From: csit-dev-boun...@lists.fd.io [mailto:csit-dev-boun...@lists.fd.io] On 
Behalf Of Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2017 5:21 PM
To: Marco Varlese <marco.varl...@suse.com>; vpp-dev@lists.fd.io; 
csit-...@lists.fd.io
Subject: Re: [csit-dev] [vpp-dev] Cryptodev "issue"

On 29/05/2017 15:54, Marco Varlese wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-05-29 at 15:35 +0100, Sergio Gonzalez Monroy wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have not seen that behavior before.
>>
>> The dpdk_crypto_sw is only for enabling SW crypto, the default is to 
>> support just HW crypto devices.
>>
>> I cannot think of a reason why you would see that behavior.
>> Basically we just check if we found enough DPDK/Cryptodev HW crypto 
>> devices for the number of workers configured.
>> How have you pin point the wait/stall to the Cryptodev initialization?
> I haven't spent much time on it however this wasn't happening on the 
> previous release (17.02) I used for my VSPerf environment. I then 
> noticed this new "message" and thought to raise the question here.
>
> If you do not see the issue and believe that cannot cause this 
> bootstrap problem then it must be something else. I will dig further 
> but my environment hasn't changed beside the new VPP version.

+csit-dev

CSIT tests have been running with this change and I do not think they have seen 
the issue either.

Have you not changed anything on your setup/startup.conf? ie. number of 
hugepages

Thanks,
Sergio

>> Thanks,
>> Sergio
>>
>> On 29/05/2017 15:27, Marco Varlese wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I pulled the latest code from master branch last week and I'm seeing 
>>> something new and related (possibly) to the Cryptodev support in 
>>> VPP/DPDK.
>>>
>>> The issue is that it now takes much longer for VPP to initialize...
>>> eventually
>>> printing out the message:
>>> "not enough Cryptodevs, default to OpenSSL IPsec"
>>>
>>> I'm building the code - as before - by:
>>>> make bootstrap
>>>> make build-release
>>> which produced a config file with the dpdk-crypto-sw disabled (see below).
>>> [   45s] with:
>>> [   45s]   dpdk_crypto_sw          no
>>>
>>> I wonder if anybody is experiencing the same behaviour (I found it 
>>> out thanks to VSPerf which was going in timeout because of VPP)?
>>>
>>> Is this something which we can disable in VPP (although from the 
>>> configure it should already be disabled)? It looks strange to me 
>>> that although the feature is disabled, the code is still looking for 
>>> crypto-devs via the DPDK infrastructure.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Marco
>>>
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>>
>>

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