On 03/17, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
To correlate the hardware RX timestamp with something, add tracking of
two software timestamps both clock source CLOCK_TAI (see description in
man clock_gettime(2)).
XDP metadata is extended with xdp_timestamp for capturing when XDP
received the packet. Populated with BPF helper bpf_ktime_get_tai_ns(). I
could not find a BPF helper for getting CLOCK_REALTIME, which would have
been preferred. In userspace when AF_XDP sees the packet another
software timestamp is recorded via clock_gettime() also clock source
CLOCK_TAI.
Example output shortly after loading igc driver:
poll: 1 (0)
xsk_ring_cons__peek: 1
0x11fc958: rx_desc[7]->addr=10000000000f000 addr=f100 comp_addr=f000
rx_hash: 0x00000000
rx_timestamp: 1676297171760293047 (sec:1676297171.7603)
XDP RX-time: 1676297208760355863 (sec:1676297208.7604) delta
sec:37.0001
AF_XDP time: 1676297208760416292 (sec:1676297208.7604) delta
sec:0.0001 (60.429 usec)
0x11fc958: complete idx=15 addr=f000
The first observation is that the 37 sec difference between RX HW vs XDP
timestamps, which indicate hardware is likely clock source
CLOCK_REALTIME, because (as of this writing) CLOCK_TAI is initialised
with a 37 sec offset.
The 60 usec (microsec) difference between XDP vs AF_XDP userspace is the
userspace wakeup time. On this hardware it was caused by CPU idle sleep
states, which can be reduced by tuning /dev/cpu_dma_latency.
View current requested/allowed latency bound via:
hexdump --format '"%d\n"' /dev/cpu_dma_latency
More explanation of the output and how this can be used to identify
clock drift for the HW clock can be seen here[1]:
[1]
https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-project/blob/master/areas/hints/xdp_hints_kfuncs02_driver_igc.org
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxx>
With a small nit below.
---
.../testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_hw_metadata.c | 8 ++-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_hw_metadata.c | 46
++++++++++++++++++--
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_metadata.h | 1
3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_hw_metadata.c
b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_hw_metadata.c
index 4c55b4d79d3d..f2a3b70a9882 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_hw_metadata.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_hw_metadata.c
@@ -69,9 +69,11 @@ int rx(struct xdp_md *ctx)
return XDP_PASS;
}
- if (!bpf_xdp_metadata_rx_timestamp(ctx, &meta->rx_timestamp))
- bpf_printk("populated rx_timestamp with %llu", meta->rx_timestamp);
- else
+ if (!bpf_xdp_metadata_rx_timestamp(ctx, &meta->rx_timestamp)) {
+ meta->xdp_timestamp = bpf_ktime_get_tai_ns();
+ bpf_printk("populated rx_timestamp with %llu", meta->rx_timestamp);
+ bpf_printk("populated xdp_timestamp with %llu", meta->xdp_timestamp);
+ } else
meta->rx_timestamp = 0; /* Used by AF_XDP as not avail signal */
Nit: curly braces around else {} block as well?
if (!bpf_xdp_metadata_rx_hash(ctx, &meta->rx_hash))
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_hw_metadata.c
b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_hw_metadata.c
index 1c8acb68b977..400bfe19abfe 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_hw_metadata.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_hw_metadata.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#include <poll.h>
+#include <time.h>
#include "xdp_metadata.h"
@@ -134,14 +135,47 @@ static void refill_rx(struct xsk *xsk, __u64 addr)
}
}
-static void verify_xdp_metadata(void *data)
+#define NANOSEC_PER_SEC 1000000000 /* 10^9 */
+static __u64 gettime(clockid_t clock_id)
+{
+ struct timespec t;
+ int res;
+
+ /* See man clock_gettime(2) for type of clock_id's */
+ res = clock_gettime(clock_id, &t);
+
+ if (res < 0)
+ error(res, errno, "Error with clock_gettime()");
+
+ return (__u64) t.tv_sec * NANOSEC_PER_SEC + t.tv_nsec;
+}
+
+static void verify_xdp_metadata(void *data, clockid_t clock_id)
{
struct xdp_meta *meta;
meta = data - sizeof(*meta);
- printf("rx_timestamp: %llu\n", meta->rx_timestamp);
printf("rx_hash: %u\n", meta->rx_hash);
+ printf("rx_timestamp: %llu (sec:%0.4f)\n", meta->rx_timestamp,
+ (double)meta->rx_timestamp / NANOSEC_PER_SEC);
+ if (meta->rx_timestamp) {
+ __u64 usr_clock = gettime(clock_id);
+ __u64 xdp_clock = meta->xdp_timestamp;
+ __s64 delta_X = xdp_clock - meta->rx_timestamp;
+ __s64 delta_X2U = usr_clock - xdp_clock;
+
+ printf("XDP RX-time: %llu (sec:%0.4f) delta sec:%0.4f (%0.3f
usec)\n",
+ xdp_clock, (double)xdp_clock / NANOSEC_PER_SEC,
+ (double)delta_X / NANOSEC_PER_SEC,
+ (double)delta_X / 1000);
+
+ printf("AF_XDP time: %llu (sec:%0.4f) delta sec:%0.4f (%0.3f
usec)\n",
+ usr_clock, (double)usr_clock / NANOSEC_PER_SEC,
+ (double)delta_X2U / NANOSEC_PER_SEC,
+ (double)delta_X2U / 1000);
+ }
+
}
static void verify_skb_metadata(int fd)
@@ -189,7 +223,7 @@ static void verify_skb_metadata(int fd)
printf("skb hwtstamp is not found!\n");
}
-static int verify_metadata(struct xsk *rx_xsk, int rxq, int server_fd)
+static int verify_metadata(struct xsk *rx_xsk, int rxq, int server_fd,
clockid_t clock_id)
{
const struct xdp_desc *rx_desc;
struct pollfd fds[rxq + 1];
@@ -237,7 +271,8 @@ static int verify_metadata(struct xsk *rx_xsk, int
rxq, int server_fd)
addr = xsk_umem__add_offset_to_addr(rx_desc->addr);
printf("%p: rx_desc[%u]->addr=%llx addr=%llx comp_addr=%llx\n",
xsk, idx, rx_desc->addr, addr, comp_addr);
- verify_xdp_metadata(xsk_umem__get_data(xsk->umem_area, addr));
+ verify_xdp_metadata(xsk_umem__get_data(xsk->umem_area, addr),
+ clock_id);
xsk_ring_cons__release(&xsk->rx, 1);
refill_rx(xsk, comp_addr);
}
@@ -364,6 +399,7 @@ static void timestamping_enable(int fd, int val)
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
+ clockid_t clock_id = CLOCK_TAI;
int server_fd = -1;
int ret;
int i;
@@ -437,7 +473,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
error(1, -ret, "bpf_xdp_attach");
signal(SIGINT, handle_signal);
- ret = verify_metadata(rx_xsk, rxq, server_fd);
+ ret = verify_metadata(rx_xsk, rxq, server_fd, clock_id);
close(server_fd);
cleanup();
if (ret)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_metadata.h
b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_metadata.h
index f6780fbb0a21..260345b2c6f1 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_metadata.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_metadata.h
@@ -11,5 +11,6 @@
struct xdp_meta {
__u64 rx_timestamp;
+ __u64 xdp_timestamp;
__u32 rx_hash;
};
