NFSTEST_RDMA

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) provides fast data transfers between servers and storage. NFS over RDMA is best used when a large amount of data needs to be transferred with higher performance than regular NFS. NFS over RDMA is usually used over InfiniBand which provides higher performance and a lower latency.

Although NFS over RDMA is mostly used over InfiniBand, Ethernet could be used as the link protocol as well. RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) which allows RDMA over Ethernet by encapsulating the InfiniBand transport packet over Ethernet. RoCE provides a couple of variants: RoCEv1 and RoCEv2. One is RoCEv1 which is an Ethernet link layer protocol and provides RDMA functionality between two hosts in the same Ethernet broadcast domain. While the second is RoCEv2 or RRoCE (Remote RoCE) which is an internet layer protocol so these packets can be routed. RoCEv2 runs over UDP/IPv4 or UDP/IPv6. There is also another variant called iWARP which runs over the TCP protocol. Testing is currently supported for all of these variants except for iWARP.

NFS over RDMA has a couple of extra layers in the packet: InfiniBand layer and RPC-over-RDMA or RPCoRDMA layer. The InfiniBand layer contains the OpCode which specifies the type of RDMA operation to perform and the PSN which is the packet sequence number. The RPCoRDMA layer contains the XID and the RDMA chunk lists. The RDMA read chunk list is used to transfer DDP (Direct Data Placement) data from the NFS client to the server, e.g., NFS write call. On the other hand, the RDMA write chunk list is used to transfer DDP data from the NFS server back to the client, e.g., NFS read reply. Only certain NFS operations can be transferred using DDP and only the opaque part of the operation is transferred using either RDMA reads or writes while the rest of the NFS packet is transferred via the receive buffer using the RDMA SEND operation. Finally, the RDMA reply chunk is used to transfer replies having a variable length reply which could be larger than the receive buffer and could not be transferred using the write chunk list because it does not contain a single large opaque item.

Tests are divided into three groups: basic, read and write. The basic tests deal mostly with verifying NFS packets using the reply chunk and some other basic RDMA functionality. The read tests deal with verifying NFS read which in turn verify the RDMA write functionality. Finally, the write tests deal with verifying NFS write which in turn verify the RDMA read functionality. Also, if the NFS read or write is small enough the client could not use the RDMA write or read functionality, but instead could use the receive buffer and transfer the data using the RDMA SEND operations.

Tests verify the RPCoRDMA layer is sent when necessary and that the RDMA chunk lists are sent with the correct information which includes the number of chunks, number of segments in each chunk and the correct information for each segment. Tests verify each segment information is correct and their corresponding RDMA read or write information which includes correct handle, virtual offset, DMA length and the XDR position for the case of RDMA reads. In addition, the correct number of RDMA I/O fragments is also verified and their corresponding lengths and packet sequence numbers.

OPTIONS

--version

show program's version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-f FILE, --file=FILE

File where options are specified besides the system wide file /etc/nfstest, user wide file $HOME/.nfstest or in the current directory .nfstest file

NFS specific options:

-s SERVER, --server=SERVER

Server name or IP address

-e EXPORT, --export=EXPORT

Exported file system to mount [default: '/']

--nfsversion=NFSVERSION

NFS version, e.g., 3, 4, 4.1, etc. [default: 4.1]

-m MTPOINT, --mtpoint=MTPOINT

Mount point [default: '/mnt/t']

-p PORT, --port=PORT

NFS server port [default: 20049]

--proto=PROTO

NFS protocol name [default: 'rdma']

--sec=SEC

Security flavor [default: 'sys']

--nconnect=NCONNECT

Multiple TCP connections option [default: '1']

-o MTOPTS, --mtopts=MTOPTS

Mount options [default: 'hard']

--datadir=DATADIR

Data directory where files are created, directory is created on the mount point [default: '']

Logging options:

-v VERBOSE, --verbose=VERBOSE

Verbose level for debug messages [default: 'none']

--tverbose=TVERBOSE

Verbose level for test messages [default: '1']

--createlog

Create log file

--rexeclog

Create rexec log files

--warnings

Display warnings

--tag=TAG

Informational tag, it is displayed as an INFO message [default: '']

--notty

Do not use terminal colors on output

Packet trace options:

--createtraces

Create a packet trace for each test

--tbsize=TBSIZE

Capture buffer size for tcpdump [default: 192k]

--trcdelay=TRCDELAY

Seconds to delay before stopping packet trace [default: 0.0]

--keeptraces

Do not remove any trace files [default: remove trace files if no errors]

--rmtraces

Remove trace files [default: remove trace files if no errors]

-i INTERFACE, --interface=INTERFACE

Device interface [default: automatically selected]

File options:

--nfiles=NFILES

Number of files to create [default: 0]

--filesize=FILESIZE

File size to use for test files [default: 64k]

--rsize=RSIZE

Read size to use when reading files [default: 4k]

--wsize=WSIZE

Write size to use when writing files [default: 4k]

--iodelay=IODELAY

Seconds to delay I/O operations [default: 0.1]

--offset-delta=OFFSET_DELTA

Read/Write offset delta [default: 4k]

Path options:

--sudo=SUDO

Full path of binary for sudo [default: '/usr/bin/sudo']

--kill=KILL

Full path of binary for kill [default: '/usr/bin/kill']

--nfsstat=NFSSTAT

Full path of binary for nfsstat [default: '/usr/sbin/nfsstat']

--tcpdump=TCPDUMP

Full path of binary for tcpdump [default: '/usr/sbin/tcpdump']

--iptables=IPTABLES

Full path of binary for iptables [default: '/usr/sbin/iptables']

--messages=MESSAGES

Full path of log messages file [default: '/var/log/messages']

--trcevents=TRCEVENTS

Full path of tracing events directory [default: '/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events']

--trcpipe=TRCPIPE

Full path of trace pipe file [default: '/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe']

--tmpdir=TMPDIR

Temporary directory [default: '/tmp']

Debug options:

--nocleanup

Do not cleanup created files

--notimestamps

Do not display timestamps in debug messages

--bugmsgs=BUGMSGS

File containing test messages to mark as bugs if they failed

--nomount

Do not mount server and run the tests on local disk space

--basename=BASENAME

Base name for all files and logs [default: automatically generated]

--nfsdebug=NFSDEBUG

Set NFS kernel debug flags and save log messages [default: '']

--rpcdebug=RPCDEBUG

Set RPC kernel debug flags and save log messages [default: '']

--tracepoints=TRACEPOINTS

List of trace points modules to enable [default: '']

--nfsstats

Get NFS stats [default: 'False']

--pktdisp

Display main packets related to the given test

--nfserrors

Fail every NFS error found in the packet trace

--client-ipaddr=CLIENT_IPADDR

IP address of localhost

Reporting options:

--xunit-report

Generate xUnit compatible test report

--xunit-report-file=XUNIT_REPORT_FILE

Path to xout report file

Test options:

--runtest=RUNTEST

Comma separated list of tests to run, if list starts with a '^' then all tests are run except the ones listed [default: 'all']

--small-filesize=SMALL_FILESIZE

File size to use for small files [default: 4k]

--large-filesize=LARGE_FILESIZE

File size to use for large files [default: 1m]

TESTS

basic

Run all NFS-over-RDMA basic functionality tests: basic01, basic02,
basic03, basic04, basic05

basic01

Verify basic NFS-over-RDMA functionality

basic02

Verify NFS-over-RDMA reply chunk on EXCHANGE_ID/SETCLIENTID

basic03

Verify NFS-over-RDMA reply chunk on READDIR

basic04

Verify NFS-over-RDMA reply chunk on READLINK

basic05

Verify NFS-over-RDMA reply chunk on GETATTR(FATTR4_ACL)

read

Run all NFS-over-RDMA functionality tests where file is opened for
reading: read01, read02, read03, read04

read01

Verify NFS-over-RDMA functionality on a file opened for reading (very small file)

read02

Verify NFS-over-RDMA functionality on a file opened for reading (small file)

read03

Verify NFS-over-RDMA functionality on a file opened for reading (medium file)

read04

Verify NFS-over-RDMA functionality on a file opened for reading (large file)

write

Run all NFS-over-RDMA functionality tests where file is opened for
writing: write01, write02, write03, write04

write01

Verify NFS-over-RDMA functionality on a file opened for writing (very small file)

write02

Verify NFS-over-RDMA functionality on a file opened for writing (small file)

write03

Verify NFS-over-RDMA functionality on a file opened for writing (medium file)

write04

Verify NFS-over-RDMA functionality on a file opened for writing (large file)

all

Run all tests: basic01, basic02, basic03, basic04, basic05, read01,
read02, read03, read04, write01, write02, write03, write04

EXAMPLES

NOTES

SEE ALSO

BUGS

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Index

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

OPTIONS

NFS specific options:

Logging options:

Packet trace options:

File options:

Path options:

Debug options:

Reporting options:

Test options:

TESTS

basic

basic01

basic02

basic03

basic04

basic05

read

read01

read02

read03

read04

write

write01

write02

write03

write04

all

EXAMPLES

NOTES

SEE ALSO

BUGS

AUTHOR