Accelerate your VM by OVS-DPDK in SUSE(Guest)

This article shows how to setup a vhost port in your vm with virtio device, implement a zero copy path for your virtual machines. 

 

Host Setup

1. Backgroud

2. Pre-requirement

3. Host Setup

3.1 cpu pin

3.2 numa

3.3 huge page

3.4 vfio

4. OVS+DPDK

4.1 dpdk

4.2 ovs

Guest Setup

4.3 vm config

5 VM setup

5.1 QEMU usuage

5.2 Libvirt usuage

6. Common issues

7. Reference

 

4.3 Setup for VM

4.3.1 Add a bridge

ovs-vsctl add-br ovs-br0 -- set bridge ovs-br0 datapath_type=netdev

4.3.2  Add a dpdk port

ovs-vsctl add-port br0 dpdk-p0 \

   -- set Interface dpdk-p0 type=dpdk options:dpdk-devargs=0000:01:00.0

Some NICs (i.e. Mellanox ConnectX-3) have only one PCI address associated with multiple ports. Using a PCI device like above won’t work. Instead, below usage is suggested:

$ ovs-vsctl add-port br0 dpdk-p0 -- set Interface dpdk-p0 type=dpdk \

    options:dpdk-devargs="class=eth,mac=00:11:22:33:44:55"

4.3.3 add vhost-user port  qemu>2.2

Open vSwitch provides two types of vHost User ports:

• vhost-user (dpdkvhostuser)

• vhost-user-client (dpdkvhostuserclient)

vHost User uses a client-server model. The server manages the vHost User sockets, 

and the client connects to the server. Depending on which port type you use, dpdkvhostuser or dpdkvhostuserclient, a different configuration of the client-servermodel is used.

For vhost-user ports, Open vSwitch acts as the server and QEMU the client. This means if OVS dies, all VMs must be restarted. On the other hand, for vhost-user-client ports, OVS acts as the client and QEMU the server. This means OVS can die and be restarted without issue, and it is also possible to restart an instance itself. For this reason, vhost-user-client ports are the preferred type for all known use cases; the only limitation is that vhost-user client mode ports require QEMU version 2.7. Ports of type vhost-user are currently deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

For vhost-user

ovs-vsctl add-port ovs-br0 vhost-user1 -- set Interface vhost-user1 

type=dpdkvhostuser -- set Interface vhost-user1

For vhost-user-client

ovs-vsctl add-port br0 dpdkvhostclient0 \

    -- set Interface dpdkvhostclient0 type=dpdkvhostuserclient \

       options:vhost-server-path=/tmp/dpdkvhostclient0

5 Guest VM 

5.1 . qemu command line

qemu-system-x86_64 -name KVM-VPX -cpu host -enable-kvm -m 4096M \

-object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=4096M,mem-path=/dev/hugepages,share=on -numa node,memdev=mem \

-mem-prealloc -smp sockets=1,cores=2 -drive file=<absolute-path-to-disc-image-file>,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=<disc-image-format> \

-device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 \

-netdev type=tap,id=hostnet0,script=no,downscript=no,vhost=on \

-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:3c:d1:ae,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 \

-chardev socket,id=char0,path=</usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/vhost-user1> \

-netdev type=vhost-user,id=mynet1,chardev=char0,vhostforce -device virtio-net-pci,mac=00:00:00:00:00:01,netdev=mynet1,mrg_rxbuf=on 

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5.2. libvirt

Two main parts need be 

5.2.1 set up huge page

<memoryBacking>

    <hugepages>

      <page size=’1048576’ unit=’KiB’/>

    </hugepages>

  </memoryBacking>

5.2.2 insert vhost user 

<interface type=’vhostuser’>

      <mac address=’52:54:00:55:55:56’/>

      <source type=’unix’ path=’/var/run/openvswitch/vhost-user1’ mode=’client’/>

      <model type=’virtio’/>

      <address type=’pci’ domain=’0x0000’ bus=’0x00’ slot=’0x04’ function=’0x0’/>

    </interface>

5.2.3 other optimization:

 <vcpu placement=’static’>6</vcpu>

  <cputune>

    <shares>4096</shares>

    <vcpupin vcpu=’0’ cpuset=’0’/>

    <vcpupin vcpu=’1’ cpuset=’2’/>

    <vcpupin vcpu=’2’ cpuset=’4’/>

    <vcpupin vcpu=’3’ cpuset=’6’/>

    <emulatorpin cpuset=’0,2,4,6’/>

  </cputune>

  <numatune>

    <memory mode=’strict’ nodeset=’0’/>

  </numatune>

5.3 Guest VM setup

vhost user port for sure, but also needs isolate cpu and huge page

Here is the VM kernel command line, set in /etc/default/grub:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=2 isolcpus=1,2,3"

6. Comman issues:

6.1 must setup huge pages and mount them

6.2 dpdk port is necessary for ovs

6.3 ovs need includes dpdk library

6.4 rte driver should included in dpdk

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6.5 issue, vhost socket permission issue

 

7. Reference:

https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/vhost-user-ovs-dpdk

http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/topics/dpdk/vhost-user/

https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/tests/vhost-user-test.c

https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/master/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst

http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/topics/dpdk/vhost-user/