dpdk-ans

TCP/IP stack for dpdk

ANS(accelerated network stack) is DPDK native TCP/IP stack and also refer to FreeBSD implementation. ANS provides a userspace TCP/IP stack for use with the Intel DPDK.

• ans: accelerated network stack process.

• librte_ans: TCP/IP stack static library. ANS use dpdk mbuf, ring, memzone, mempool, timer, spinlock. so zero copy mbuf between dpdk and ANS.

• librte_anssock: ANS socket lib for application, zero copy between ANS and application.

• librte_anscli: ANS cli lib for route/ip/neigh/link configuration.

• cli: Command for configure ANS tcp/ip stack.

• example: ANS application example.

• test: Example application with ANS for testing ANS tcp/ip stack

Support environment

• EAL is based on dpdk-18.11;
• linux version： 4.4.0-45-generic (Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS).
• gcc version： gcc version 5.4.0 20160609.

Support feature:

• ANS initialize;
• ANS run in container;
• Ether, zero copy between NIC and ANS TCP/IP stack;
• ARP, ARP timeout;
• IP layer, IP fragmentation and reassemble;
• High performance routing;
• ICMP;
• ACL;
• Bypass traffic to linux kernel;
• Sync IP/Route from linux kernel;
• Support dynamic routing(OSPF/BGP...);
• Support DHCP client;
• Command Line Interface:
  • Adding, deleting, showing IP addres;
  • Adding, deleting, showing static route;
  • Showing neigh table;
  • Showing interface and statistics;
  • Showing IP statistics;
  • Adding, deleting, showing ACL;
  • Adding, deleting, showing bypass rule;
  • Showing port queue lcore mapping;
  • Adding, deleting, showing flow filter rule;
• UDP protocol;
• Socket layer;
• Socket API compatible with BSD, APP can choice ANS socket or linux socket based on a switch.
  • socket/bind/connect/listen/close/send/recv/epoll/writev/readv/shutdown...;
• Support openssl;
• TCP protocol;
  • Support reliable transmission;
  • Support dupack-based retransmission, timeout-based retransmission;
  • Support flow control;
  • Support congestion control: newreno/cubic/vegas...;
  • Support maximum segment size;
  • Support selective acknowledgments;
  • Support window scaling;
  • Support TCP timestamps;
  • Support TCP ECN;
  • Support keep alive;
  • Support SO_REUSEPORT, multi application can listen the same port;
  • Support multicore tcp stack, per tcp stack per lcore;
  • Support TSO.
• Vrouter;
  • Support vhost;
  • Support virtio-user;
  • Support kni;
  • Support tap;
• Hardware;
  • x86: broadwell, haswell, ivybridge, knl, sandybridge, westmere and so on.
  • arm: arm64 SoC and edge computer;

ANS User Guide

# git clone https://github.com/ansyun/dpdk-ans.git
# export RTE_ANS=/home/mytest/dpdk-ans
# ./install_deps.sh
# cd ans
# make

ANS User Guide

ANS Architecture

TCP Deployment

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• NIC distribute packets to different lcore based on RSS, so same TCP flow are handled in the same lcore.
• Each lcore has own TCP stack, free lock.
• IP/ARP/ICMP are shared between lcores.
• APP process runs as a tcp server.
  • If App process only creates one listen socket, the listen socket only listens on one lcore and accept tcp connections from the lcore, so the APP process number shall large than the lcore number. The listen sockets of APP processes are created on each lcore averagely. For example: ans(with -c 0x3) run on two lcore, shall run two nginx(only run master ), one nginx listens on lcore0, another nginx listens on lcore1.
• APP process can bind the same port if enable reuseport, APP process could accept tcp connection by round robin.
• If NIC don't support multi queue or RSS, shall enhance ans_main.c, reserve one lcore to receive and send packets from NIC, and distribute packets to lcores of ANS tcp stack by software RSS.

Performance Testing

ANS Performance Test Report

• TCP server performance testing

    |------------------------------| 
    |      TCP Server CPS          |
    |------------------------------| 
    |       ANS with epoll         | 
    |         (one core)           |
    |------------------------------|
    |     100k connection/s         | 
    |------------------------------| 

• L3 forwarding with NIC performance testing

  ENV: CPU- Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2683 v3 @ 2.00GHz, NIC- Intel 82599ES 10-Gigabit, Test tool:pktgen-DPDK

    |--------------------------------------| 
    |      L3 forwarding performance       |
    |             (one lcore)              |
    |--------------------------------------| 
    | Packet size(byte)| Throughput(Mpps)  | 
    |--------------------------------------|
    |     64           |       11.78       | 
    |--------------------------------------| 
    |     128          |      Line Rate    | 
    |--------------------------------------| 
 

• L3 forwarding with vhost/virtio performance testing

  ENV: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2618L v4 @ 2.20GHz, NIC- vhost/virtio, Test tool:pktgen-DPDK

    |--------------------------------------| 
    |      L3 forwarding performance       |
    |             (one lcore)              |
    |--------------------------------------| 
    | Packet size(byte)| Throughput(Mpps)  | 
    |--------------------------------------|
    |     64           |       6.33        | 
    |--------------------------------------| 
    |     128          |       5.94        | 
    |--------------------------------------| 
    |     256          |     Line Rate     | 
    |--------------------------------------| 

• dpdk-redis performance testing

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• dpdk-nginx CPS performance

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• dpdk-nginx QPS performance

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Examples

• dpdk http server: http server run on ANS tcp/ip stack.
• dpdk https server: https server run on ANS tcp/ip stack.
• dpdk-nginx, nginx was porting to run on ANS tcp/ip stack.
• dpdk-redis, redis was porting to run on ANS tcp/ip stack.
• dpdk-iperf, iperf was porting to run on ANS tcp/ip stack.
• dpdk-httpperf, wrk was porting to run on ANS tcp/ip stack.

Wiki Page

You can get more information and instructions from wiki page.

Notes

• You shall use the same dpdk version as ans libs used.
• Shall use the same gcc version to compile your application.
• ANS socket application run as a secondary dpdk process, If you got below log, shall execute below commands to disable ASLR.

EAL: WARNING: Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is enabled in the kernel.
EAL: This may cause issues with mapping memory into secondary processes
$ sudo sysctl -w kernel.randomize_va_space=0

• You shall modify the NIC configuration in ans_main.c based on your NIC type.

• ANS didn't support loopback interface, so socket client and server can't be in the same ANS tcp/ip stack.

• In order to improve ANS performance, you shall isolate ANS'lcore from kernel by isolcpus and isolcate interrupt from ANS's lcore by update /proc/irq/default_smp_affinity file.

• ANS run as dpdk primary process, when startup ANS, shall stop other secondary processes(nginx/redis/http_server).

• Don't run ANS on lcore0, it will effect ANS performance.

• You shall include dpdk libs as below way because mempool lib has attribute((constructor, used)) in latest version, otherwise your application would coredump.

  -$(RTE_ANS)/librte_anssock/librte_anssock.a \
  -L$(RTE_SDK)/$(RTE_TARGET)/lib \
  -Wl,--whole-archive -Wl,-lrte_mbuf -Wl,-lrte_mempool_ring -Wl,-lrte_mempool -Wl,-lrte_ring -Wl,-lrte_eal -Wl,--no-whole-archive -Wl,-export-dynamic -lnuma \

Support

BSD LICENSE, you may use ANS freely.

For free support, please use ANS team mail list at [email protected], or QQ Group:86883521 (FULL), 519855957(Full), 719128726, or https://dpdk-ans.slack.com, or skype(bluenet13).