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Enabling the Network Multipathing Feature

  1. Disable irqbalance.
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    systemctl stop irqbalance
    
  2. The network multipathing module depends on the hisi_l3t.ko module. Check whether the module has been loaded.
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    lsmod | grep hisi_l3t
    
    If the command output is empty, load hisi_l3t.ko.
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    modprobe hisi_l3t
    
  3. Decompress oenetcls.ko and move it to the /root directory.
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    unxz /usr/lib/modules/5.10.0-270.0.0.173.oe2203sp4.aarch64/kernel/net/oenetcls/oenetcls.ko.xz
    cp /usr/lib/modules/5.10.0-270.0.0.173.oe2203sp4.aarch64/kernel/net/oenetcls/oenetcls.ko /root/
    
  4. Configure the NIC information and enable the network multipathing feature. For details about the parameters, see Table 1.
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    insmod /root/oenetcls.ko ifname="eth1#eth2" strategy=1
    
    Table 1 Parameter description

    Parameter

    Description

    Mandatory/Optional

    ifname

    Specifies the interface name of the NIC where the multipathing feature takes effect. Multiple interface names can be entered, which are separated by number signs (#).

    For example, the value can be eth1#eth2, where eth1 and eth2 are device names. Replace the parameters with the device names of the two NICs used in Configuring the Server. You can also use one NIC. The NIC interrupts are bound to the first 32 cores of each NUMA node.

    Mandatory

    strategy

    Specifies the interrupt-core binding policy.

    • 0: default policy. The NIC queue interrupts are evenly distributed to different NUMA nodes, and different NICs use different cores.
    • 1: cluster-based even distribution policy. The NIC queue interrupts are evenly distributed to different clusters.
    • 2: NUMA-based even distribution policy. The NIC queue interrupts are evenly distributed to different NUMA nodes. Different from the default policy, this policy allows different NICs to use the same core.
    • 3: reserved policy.

    Mandatory

    debug

    Indicates the debugging switch. The value can be dynamically changed.

    0: default value. Indicates that no debug log is generated.

    1: indicates that debug logs are generated.

    Optional

    mode

    Indicates the running mode.

    0: default value. Indicates the ntuple mode.

    1: indicates the flow mode.

    Optional

    appname

    Indicates the name of the process for which the multipathing feature takes effect. The default value is redis-server.

    Multiple process names can be input, which are separated by number signs (#). The value is a string of a maximum of 64 bytes.

    Optional

    match_ip_flag

    Controls whether the NIC uses the destination IP address in addition to the port number to assign incoming data packets to specific queues. The value can be dynamically changed.

    0: indicates that the destination IP address is not used.

    1: default value. Indicates that the destination IP address is used.

    Optional