[Samba] Multichannel and RSS Not Detected

Chris Dos chris at chrisdos.com
Tue Aug 17 12:28:51 UTC 2021


Bump.  Any ideas on what the problem be.  I've been working on this and I
don't know why it is not working.  We need to get about 15Gb/s to do the
project that we are working on and without Multichannel and RSS it is not
going to be possible.

    Chris

On 8/7/21 4:43 PM, Chris Dos via samba wrote:
> I've spent the last couple of days trying to get Multichannel and RSS working
> and it's been hit and miss.  Mostly miss at this point.
>
> I have two servers on the same network, running the same dual Mellanox 100G
> card with mostly identical samba configs.  A Win 10 client sees multichannel
> and RSS from one server but not the other when running
> "Get-SmbMultichannelConnection -IncludeNotSelected".
>
> Servers are running Devuan (Debian 10) with the 5.10 kernel and ZFS.  I
> thought my original issue was because the mlx5_core driver in the 5.10 kernel
> did not show any queues in /proc/interrupts (grep lan2 /proc/interrupts). 
> Installing the driver from Mellanox fixed that problem.  But the odd thing is,
> the server that is working, is running the stock kernel driver and and does
> not show anything in /proc/interrupts.  I tried both the stock and Mellanox
> driver on the server that is not working.
>
> I'm at a loss on how to debug this on why the Win 10 client does not see
> multichannel or RSS for one server but not the other..  I upgraded the server
> to samba 4.14.6+dfsg-0.1buster1 from 4.9.  The server that is working used
> both versions of samba and the Win 10 client saw it with each version.
>
> I'm mostly intested in getting RSS working as I read for multiple nics to work
> I would need to put the IPs on different subnets.
>
> Each server has both of the 100G links bonded into a 802.3ad LAG.
>
> Information:
>
> smb.conf:
> [global]
>     netbios name = SB1
>     interfaces = "172.28.202.10;capability=RSS" "172.28.90.10;capability=RSS"
> "172.28.133.10;capability=RSS,speed=100000000000"
>         server multi channel support = yes
>     workgroup = GIANT
>     wins server = 172.28.202.5
>     os level = 20
>         log level = 3
>     client min protocol = SMB3
>         os level = 8
>         local master = No
>         domain master = No
>     ntlm auth = yes
>     log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>         max log size = 1000
>     server role = standalone server
>     obey pam restrictions = No
>     unix password sync = no
>     passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>     passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:*
> %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully*
>     invalid users = root
>     usershare path =
>     usershare allow guests = yes
>     guest account = nas
>     aio read size = 1
>     aio write size = 1
>     aio max threads = 100
>     vfs objects = catia
>         mangled names = no
>         catia:mappings =
> 0x22:0xa8,0x2a:0xa4,0x2f:0xf8,0x3a:0xf7,0x3c:0xab,0x3e:0xbb,0x3f:0xbf,0x5c:0xff,0x7c:0xa6
>     smb2 leases = yes
>     posix locking = no
>     security = user
>     map to guest = bad user   
>     store dos attributes = yes
>     dos filetimes = yes
>
> [plaid]
>     path = /netshares/plaid
>     force user = nas
>     force group = nas
>     create mask = 770
>     force create mode = 770
>     directory mask = 2770
>     force directory mode = 2770
>     guest ok = yes
>     read only = no
>     hosts allow = 172.28.133. 172.28.90.
>     dos filetimes = yes
>
>
>
> ethtool -l lan2
> Channel parameters for lan2:
> Pre-set maximums:
> RX:        0
> TX:        0
> Other:        0
> Combined:    32
> Current hardware settings:
> RX:        0
> TX:        0
> Other:        0
> Combined:    32
>
> ethtool -g lan2
> Ring parameters for lan2:
> Pre-set maximums:
> RX:        8192
> RX Mini:    0
> RX Jumbo:    0
> TX:        8192
> Current hardware settings:
> RX:        1024
> RX Mini:    0
> RX Jumbo:    0
> TX:        1024
>
> ethtool -x lan2
> RX flow hash indirection table for lan2 with 32 RX ring(s):
>     0:      0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7
>     8:      8     9    10    11    12    13    14    15
>    16:     16    17    18    19    20    21    22    23
>    24:     24    25    26    27    28    29    30    31
>    32:      0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7
>    40:      8     9    10    11    12    13    14    15
>    48:     16    17    18    19    20    21    22    23
>    56:     24    25    26    27    28    29    30    31
>    64:      0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7
>    72:      8     9    10    11    12    13    14    15
>    80:     16    17    18    19    20    21    22    23
>    88:     24    25    26    27    28    29    30    31
>    96:      0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7
>   104:      8     9    10    11    12    13    14    15
>   112:     16    17    18    19    20    21    22    23
>   120:     24    25    26    27    28    29    30    31
> RSS hash key:
> 12:e3:f3:8e:92:fa:db:eb:5b:29:e2:49:cd:39:39:9c:a4:ea:41:e8:c9:ee:66:7f:37:9b:ea:33:99:d9:45:3c:8a:db:bd:a1:bc:66:24:05
> RSS hash function:
>     toeplitz: on
>     xor: off
>     crc32: off
>
> grep lan2 /proc/interrupts  
>     http://ix.io/3viC  (note, need very wide window)
>
> ifconfig bond_private
> bond_private: flags=5187<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MASTER,MULTICAST>  mtu 9000
>         inet 172.28.133.10  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 172.28.133.255
>         inet6 fe80::ae1f:6bff:fecf:20e0  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
>         ether ac:1f:6b:cf:20:e0  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
>         RX packets 54063955  bytes 326509018851 (304.0 GiB)
>         RX errors 0  dropped 5  overruns 0  frame 0
>         TX packets 34841728  bytes 299047275167 (278.5 GiB)
>         TX errors 0  dropped 5 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
>
>
> PS C:\> Get-SmbClientNetworkInterface
>
> Interface Index RSS Capable RDMA Capable Speed   
> IpAddresses                                 Friendly Name
> --------------- ----------- ------------ -----   
> -----------                                 -------------
> 14              True        False        100 Gbps {fe80::f0b7:6e80:9de4:df83,
> 172.28.133.101} Ethernet 4
>
> Please let me know if there is any other information I can provide to help me
> get this figured out.
>
>     Chris



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