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Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [virtio-comment] Re: [PATCH v12] virtio-net: support inner header hash
å 2023/4/14 äå5:43, Michael S. Tsirkin åé:
On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 07:03:26PM +0800, Heng Qi wrote:Â For example, when the packets of certain +tunnels are spread across multiple receive queues, these receive queues may have an unbalanced +amount of packets. This can cause a specific receive queue to become full, resulting in packet loss.We have many places that can lead to packet dropping. For example, the automatic steering is best effort. I tend to avoid mentioning things like this.Ok. And Michael what do you think about this?I think this text did not do a great job explaining the security aspect. Here's a better, shorter explanation: It is often an expectation of users that a tunnel isolates the external network from the internal one. By completely ignoring entropy in the external header and replacing it with entropy from the internal header, for hash calculations, this expectation might be violated to a certain extent, depending on how the hash is used. When the hash use is limited to RSS queue selection, the effect will likely be limited to ability of users inside the tunnel to cause packet drops in multiple queues (as opposed to a single queue without the feature).
Sure. Will do in the v13.
+ +Possible mitigations: +\begin{itemize} +\item Use a tool with good forwarding performance to keep the receive queue from filling up. +\item If the QoS is unavailable, the driver can set \field{hash_tunnel_types} to VIRTIO_NET_HASH_TUNNEL_TYPE_NONE +ÂÂÂÂÂ to disable inner header hash for encapsulated packets. +\item Choose a hash key that can avoid queue collisions. +\item Perform appropriate QoS before packets consume the receive buffers of the receive queues. +\end{itemize} + +The limitations mentioned above exist with/without the inner header hash.This conflicts with the tile "Tunnel QoS limitation" which readers may think it happens only for tunnel.Perhaps a "QoS Advices" is better?Plural of "advice" is "advice" not "advices".
My fault.ð
This advice is somewhat bogus though. The point I keep trying to make is that this: Choose a hash key that can avoid queue collisions. is impossible with the feature and possible without.
I don't think so, the outer headers also has corresponding entropy for different streams.
Thanks.
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