Storage and Network for S2D: 2019

2019/12/05

Monitor RoCE - Mellanox Switch SX1012

Monitor RoCE and configuration examples for Mellanox Switch SX1012

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Performance Monitor and configuration examples for Mellanox Switch SX1012

Monitor Priority and Pause Frames for RDMA (RoCE) on Mellanox Switch SX1012

Blog on Mellanox SN2100

For the screen captures in the blog I used the Mellanox Switch SX1012

Mellanox SX1012 (SwitchX - Onyx 3.6.8010)

References

Microsoft:

Mellanox L2 PCP TC:

Terminology:
pNIC Physical NIC, the physical hardware that exchanges packets with the TOR
vNIC    Host vNIC – Virtual NIC from vSwitch exposed in the host partition
tNIC Host tNIC - Team Interface NIC from LBFO Team
vmNIC Virtual Machine NIC – Virtual NIC from vSwitch exposed in a guest partition
vSwitch Hyper-V virtual switch
SET Switch Embedded Teaming, Hyper-V virtual switch supported in Windows Server 2016 and 2019

ToR Top of Rack switch
RDMA Remote Direct Memory Access
RoCE RDMA over Converged Ethernet
RoCEv2 2nd generation RoCE using UDP/IP for routability (a.k.a. Routable RoCE)

DCB Data Center Bridging
LLDP   Link Layer Data Protocol
DCBx   Data Center Bridging Capability Exchange protocol (DCBX) is an extension of LLDP.
PFC Priority Flow Control
ETS Enhanced Transmission Service
TC Traffic Class
ECN Explicit Congestion Notification
RED Random Early Detection
CNP Congestion Notification Packet. CNP control frames (congestion ACK)
SP Strict Priority
WRR Weighted Round Robin

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Mellanox Switch configuration example (L2):
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Mellanox SX1012

enable
configure terminal
interface ethernet 1/1-1/12 flowcontrol send off force
interface ethernet 1/1-1/12 flowcontrol receive off force

dcb priority-flow-control enable force
dcb priority-flow-control priority 3 enable
(Priority 3 is used for Storage (SMB) traffic)
interface ethernet 1/1-1/12 dcb priority-flow-control mode on force
interface ethernet 1/1 switchport mode hybrid
(Need to be repeated for each port)
S2D# interface ethernet 1/x switchport hybrid allowed-vlan all
Need to be repeated for each port. Only allow the needed vlans, the "allowed-vlan all" is not recommended, this is from a lab/test system).
dcb ets tc bandwidth 49 50 0 1
(More infromation below)
exit
write memory

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Mellanox Switch Disable PFC

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no dcb priority-flow-control priority 3 enable

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Mellanox SX1012 (SwitchX)
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show dcb priority-flow-control detail

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show dcb priority-flow-control
show dcb priority-flow-control interface ethernet 1/1

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show dcb ets
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For the PFC enabled priorities we need to use the lossless TCs

So for the Microsoft use cases we change the default to:
Priority 0 Default traffic 49%
Priority 3 SMB traffic 50%
Priority 7 Cluster traffic 1%

dcb ets tc bandwidth 49 50 0 1

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show dcb ets interface ethernet 1/1

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show interfaces ethernet 1/3 counters priority 3
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Monitor RoCE - Mellanox Switch SN2100

Monitor RoCE and configuration examples for Mellanox Switch SN2100

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Performance Monitor and configuration examples for Mellanox Switch SN2100
Monitor Priority and Pause Frames for RDMA (RoCE) on Mellanox Switch.SN2100

Blog on Mellanox SX1012

For the screen captures the Mellanox Switch SN2100 was used with the listed version and config:

Mellanox SN2100 (Spectrum - Onyx 3.6.8010)
The SwitchX and Spectrum are configured in different ways when we look on L2 ETS
The Spectrum also support to use L3 (DSCP)Note: Microsoft configuration guide use RoCE Layer 2 (L2) for S2D that use SET (NDKm2)

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Mellanox Show Commands for DCB, PFC and ETS
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show dcb priority-flow-control
show dcb priority-flow-control detail
show dcb ets

Show Interface
show dcb priority-flow-control interface ethernet 1/11
show dcb ets interface ethernet 1/11

show qos interface ethernet 1/11 tc-mapping
show qos interface ethernet 1/11 rewrite-mapping

show interfaces ethernet 1/11 counters pfc prio all
show interfaces ethernet 1/11 counters pfc prio 3

show interfaces ethernet 1/11 pfc-wd

ECN
clear counters all
show interfaces ethernet 1/11 congestion-control

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References

Microsoft:

Mellanox:

Mellanox L2 PCP TC:

Mellanox L3 - DSCP:

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Mellanox Switch configuration example (L2):
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Mellanox SN2100 (Spectrum)

enable
configure terminal
interface ethernet 1/1-1/12 traffic-class 3 dcb ets strict
interface ethernet 1/1-1/12 traffic-class 7 dcb ets strict

interface ethernet 1/1-1/12 flowcontrol send off force
interface ethernet 1/1-1/12 flowcontrol receive off force

dcb priority-flow-control enable force
dcb priority-flow-control priority 3 enable
(Priority 3 is used for Storage (SMB) traffic)
interface ethernet 1/1-1/12 dcb priority-flow-control mode on force
interface ethernet 1/1 switchport mode hybrid
(Need to be repeated for each port)
S2D# interface ethernet 1/x switchport hybrid allowed-vlan all
Need to be repeated for each port. Only allow the needed vlans, the "allowed-vlan all" is not recommended, this is from a lab/test system).
exit
write memory

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Reset to default ETS for Port 1 to 12
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enable
configure terminal
no interface ethernet 1/1-1/12 traffic-class 0 dcb ets
no interface ethernet 1/1-1/12 traffic-class 1 dcb ets
no interface ethernet 1/1-1/12 traffic-class 2 dcb ets
no interface ethernet 1/1-1/12 traffic-class 3 dcb ets
no interface ethernet 1/1-1/12 traffic-class 4 dcb ets
no interface ethernet 1/1-1/12 traffic-class 5 dcb ets
no interface ethernet 1/1-1/12 traffic-class 6 dcb ets
no interface ethernet 1/1-1/12 traffic-class 7 dcb ets
show dcb ets interface ethernet 1/1
exit
write memory

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Mellanox Switch configuration example with DSCP:

Draft - Test only last update 2019.01.19
Note:
#1: The example use both L2/L3. SwitchX use L2 and Spectrum use both L2/L3
#2: Microsoft configuration guide use RoCE Layer 2 (L2) for S2D.
#3: DSCP is supported by Windows Server OS. However to use it for S2D is not recommended right now by Microsoft and for test you need to work close with the Hardware vendors.

Lossless RoCE Configuration for MLNX-OS Switches in DSCP-Based QoS Mode
Lossless RoCE Configuration for MLNX-OS Switches in DSCP-Based QoS Mode (Old version)
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S2D (Config)# interface ethernet 1/1-1/x qos trust ?

port based on port default settings
L2 based on PCP, DEI fields
L3 based on EXP, DSCP fields
both based on PCP, DEI and EXP, DSCP fields

S2D (Config)# interface ethernet 1/1-1/x qos trust both
(Note: In my lab I used both SwitchX and Spectrum. The Spectrum Switch need to accepts PCP and DSCP in my example)

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interface ethernet 1/1-1/x traffic-class 3 congestion-control ecn minimum-absolute 150 maximum-absolute 1500
traffic pool roce type lossless
raffic pool roce memory percent 50.00
traffic pool roce map switch-priority 3
interface ethernet 1/1-1/x traffic-class 3 dcb ets strict
interface ethernet 1/1-1/x traffic-class 7 dcb ets strict
interface ethernet 1/1-1/x qos trust both

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interface ethernet 1/1-1/x traffic-class 0 bind switch-priority 0
interface ethernet 1/1-1/x traffic-class 3 bind switch-priority 3
interface ethernet 1/1-1/x traffic-class 7 bind switch-priority 7

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interface ethernet 1/1-1/x flowcontrol send off force
interface ethernet 1/1-1/x flowcontrol receive off force

dcb priority-flow-control enable force
dcb priority-flow-control priority 3 enable
(Priority 3 is used for Storage (SMB) traffic)
interface ethernet 1/1-1/x dcb priority-flow-control mode on force
interface ethernet 1/x switchport mode hybrid
(Need to be repeated for each port from 1 to x)
S2D (Config)# interface ethernet 1/x switchport hybrid allowed-vlan all
Need to be repeated for each port from 1 to x. Only allow the needed vlans, the "allowed-vlan all" is not recommended, this is from a lab/test system).

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Host pNIC configuration

Driver version 2.10 or newer

S2D PS> Mlx5Cmd.exe -QosConfig -SetupRoceQosConfig -Name NIC3 -Configure 2

Default DSCP to switch-priority mapping:
0-7 → 0
8-15 → 1
16-23 → 2
24-31 → 3
32-39 → 4
40-47 → 5
48-55 → 6
56-63 → 7

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DiskSpd remote disk Performance and Host impact

DiskSpd (diskspd.exe) - Disk Read/Write impact on the Host CPU/LPs (Remote Disk with RDMA/iWARP)
Examples with 1, 10 and 32 threads per target. 1 or 8 Number of outstanding I/O requests per-target per-threads.

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diskspd.exe - Disk Read/Write impact on the Host CPU/LPs
The performance counters shows the Remote Client Host CPU/LPs impact, while the diskspd.exe creating workload

*** Note: Before you run the test with DiskSpd on a Cluster, set the CSV cache to 0. DiskSpd create synthetic workloads on Windows Server 2019 Clusters or later (including Storage Spaces Direct S2D). The Read only cache causes performance slowness with synthetic workloads, however with real workloads it increases performance.

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Both the File Server and the Client Host use Chelsio 40G Network Adapteres with RDMA/iWARP
The File Server use a "SET Switch" with two vNICs and the Client use pNIC

S046001E - File Server

172.18.0.119
172.18.0.120

S046002A - Client (Running DiskSpd)

172.18.0.121
172.18.0.122

Part 1 - Performance test with DiskSpd (Remote Disk Performance - Part 1)

Part 2 - Performance test with DiskSpd (Remote Disk Performance - Part 2)

The first Picture shows the SMB RDMA Connections
Note: The direction is opposite of the job, Read Test will show SMB Direct Write traffic

SMB Direct Connections from Client Server to File Server
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Client Server Read Performance from the remote File Share (Remote Disk)
Note:
The Client Server use a pNIC from Chelsio with RDMA/iWARP enabled
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Client Server Read Performance from the remote File Share (Remote Disk)
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Client Server Write Performance from the remote File Share (Remote Disk)
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File Server Host Read Performance from the remote Client (Local Disk impact on the File Server)
Note:
The File Server use a Virtual Switch (SET Switch) with vNICs and RDMA enabled (NDKm2)
The pNICs are also Chelsio with RDMA/iWARP
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File Server Host Write Performance from the remote Client (Local Disk impact on the File Server)
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2019/11/22

DiskSpd local disk Performance and Host impact

DiskSpd (diskspd.exe) - Disk Read/Write impact on the Host CPU/LPs (Local Disk)
Examples with 1, 10 and 32 threads per target. 1 or 8 Number of outstanding I/O requests per-target per-threads.

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diskspd.exe - Disk Read/Write impact on the Host CPU/LPs
The performance counters shows the Host CPU/LPs impact, while the diskspd.exe creating workloads

Links for download DiskSpd and Command help on GitHub

Example:
Create the Test file "io.dat" with the size of 100GB add the command "-c100G" the first time
Diskspd.exe -b8K -d60 -Su -L -o1 -t1 -r -w0 -W20 -c100G D:\Temp\io.dat

Read Test:
Diskspd.exe -b8K -d60 -Su -L -o1 -t1 -r -w0 -W30 D:\Temp\io.dat
Diskspd.exe -b8K -d60 -Su -L -o8 -t1 -r -w0 -W30 D:\Temp\io.dat

Diskspd.exe -b8K -d60 -Su -L -o1 -t10 -r -w0 -W20 D:\Temp\io.dat
Diskspd.exe -b8K -d60 -Su -L -o8 -t10 -r -w0 -W20 D:\Temp\io.dat

Diskspd.exe -b8K -d60 -Su -L -o1 -t32 -r -w0 -W20  D:\Temp\io.dat
Diskspd.exe -b8K -d60 -Su -L -o8 -t32 -r -w0 -W20  D:\Temp\io.dat

Write Tests:
Diskspd.exe -b8K -d60 -Su -L -o1 -t1 -r -w100 -W30 D:\Temp\io.dat
Diskspd.exe -b8K -d60 -Su -L -o8 -t1 -r -w100 -W30 D:\Temp\io.dat

Diskspd.exe -b8K -d60 -Su -L -o1 -t10 -r -w100 -W20 D:\Temp\io.dat
Diskspd.exe -b8K -d60 -Su -L -o8 -t10 -r -w100 -W20 D:\Temp\io.dat

Diskspd.exe -b8K -d60 -Su -L -o1 -t32 -r -w100 -W20  D:\Temp\io.dat
Diskspd.exe -b8K -d60 -Su -L -o8 -t32 -r -w100 -W20  D:\Temp\io.dat

Examples with 1, 10 and 32 threads per target. 1 or 8 Number of outstanding I/O requests per-target per-thread