Re: [Tofoo] FW: I-D Action: draft-zhou-li-vxlan-soe-01.txt

"Zhou, Han" <hzhou8@ebay.com> Wed, 21 May 2014 00:28 UTC

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Hi Tom,

Thanks for your comments.
Yes TSO/LRO with VXLAN support should provide similar or even better performance gains, but the mechanism proposed by this draft decouples overlay and underlay, and it is hardware independent.
Secondly, hardware offloading usually support TCP only (TSO). The mechanism here can help on large UDP packet performance, also verified by the prototype.
BTW, how many types of off-the-shelf NIC support VXLAN offloading? Any performance data?

Likewise, setting large MTU on overlay interfaces achieves similar result, but still the overlay/underlay decoupling issue. It is usually advised that overlay MTU is slightly smaller than underlay to avoid inefficient fragmentation after adding the outer header, but to achieve really high performance between VMs, large MTU is preferred. And considering overlay <-> physical connection, path MTU discovery is not always work.
This kind of configuration complexity and pain-point can be resolved simply by decoupling overlay and underlay MTU, as suggested by this draft. Here is an example of configuration confusion:
http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-May/013898.html

Ideally, all NV tunnel protocols should support similar metadata, thus overlay segmentation can be offloaded hop-by-hop.

Best regards,
Han

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Subject: Re: FW: I-D Action: draft-zhou-li-vxlan-soe-01.txt

Hi Zou, a couple of questions inline.

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Zhou, Han <hzhou8@ebay.com<mailto:hzhou8@ebay.com>> wrote:
Hi,

We have updated the VXLAN-SOE draft according to earlier comments. Now it is fully compatible with VXLAN-GPE. And some examples are added for better understanding

A prototype is also implemented here (patch based on Open vSwitch):
https://github.com/hzhou8/openvswitch/commit/9a7deb8b432ce83a9c09d7d4ff85fa050f7dd2be

netperf TCP_STREAM test result between a pairs of VMs on hosts with 10G interfaces:

Before the change: 2.62 Gbits/sec
After the change: 6.68 Gbits/sec
Speedup is ~250%.
Can you provide some more details on this benefit? It seems like plain TSO/LRO that understands encapsulation should provide similar benefits when going between hosts.


The patch attracted some interests in OVS community, but since this RFC draft is in very early stage so it is regarded as inappropriate by Jesse to apply the change to OVS tree.
The discuss mail-thread:
http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-May/013981.html
http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-May/013898.html

So we would like to request a review here by NVO3/TOFOO groups and VXLAN authors: is this VXLAN extension is worth formally put into VXLAN as a standard, so that more people can benefit from it?
Could you get the same effect by setting larger MTUs on the overlay network interface and relying in path MTU discovery when going over physical network?

Best regards,
Han

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Subject: I-D Action: draft-zhou-li-vxlan-soe-01.txt


A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.


        Title           : Segmentation Offloading Extension for VXLAN
        Authors         : Han Zhou
                          Chengyuan Li
        Filename        : draft-zhou-li-vxlan-soe-01.txt
        Pages           : 13
        Date            : 2014-05-02

Abstract:
   Segmentation offloading is nowadays common in network stack
   implementation and well supported by para-virtualized network device
   drivers for virtual machine (VM)s. This draft describes an extension
   to Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) so that segmentation
   can be decoupled from physical/underlay networks and offloaded
   further to the remote end-point thus improving data-plane performance
   for VMs running on top of overlay networks.


The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhou-li-vxlan-soe/

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http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zhou-li-vxlan-soe-01

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http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-zhou-li-vxlan-soe-01


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