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nebula/flow_tx_test.go
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Ryan Huber 82488caa32 tun: Benchmark the staged transmit pipeline
Run reads of eight 45-segment superpackets through listenIn into a
discarding socket, inline and with four workers, for both ciphers.
2026-10-16 21:24:04 +00:00

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//go:build linux && !android && !e2e_testing
package nebula
import (
"fmt"
"net/netip"
"os"
"os/exec"
"slices"
"sync"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/flynn/noise"
"github.com/rcrowley/go-metrics"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/cpupick"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/firewall"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/header"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/noiseutil"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/overlay/batch"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/overlay/tio"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/udp"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/util"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
"go.uber.org/goleak"
"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
)
// TestReservedEncryptionMatchesInline encrypts a batch with counters reserved up front: the receiver accepts every
// segment, in order.
func TestReservedEncryptionMatchesInline(t *testing.T) {
sender, receiver := newFlowTestPair(t, noise.CipherChaChaPoly, stagedConfig{})
packets, want := flowTestBatches(1, 3, 3, 9)
r := txReserver{f: sender.f}
items := r.collect(nil, packets[0], &firewall.ParsedPacket{}, make([]byte, mtu), 0, nil)
require.Equal(t, uint64(len(want)), r.tunnels[0].n)
sb := batch.NewSendBatch(sender.conn, 128, 65536)
for _, it := range r.reserve(items) {
sender.f.encryptTxItem(&it, make([]byte, 12), sb)
}
sender.f.flushSendBatch(sb, 0)
require.Equal(t, want, decryptWire(t, receiver, sender.conn.captured()))
}
// TestSegmentCount checks tio.Packet.SegmentCount predicts exactly the segments tio.SegmentSuperpacket cuts, odd tails included.
func TestSegmentCount(t *testing.T) {
require.Equal(t, 1, tio.Packet{Bytes: make([]byte, 60)}.SegmentCount())
for _, segs := range []int{1, 2, 3, 45} {
for _, tail := range []int{0, 1, flowTestMSS - 1} {
pkt := flowTCPSuperpacket(0, 0, segs)
pkt.Bytes = pkt.Bytes[:len(pkt.Bytes)-tail]
pkt.GSO = tio.GSOInfo{Size: flowTestMSS, HdrLen: 40, CsumStart: 20, Proto: tio.GSOProtoTCP}
want, got := pkt.SegmentCount(), 0
require.NoError(t, tio.SegmentSuperpacket(pkt, func([]byte) error { got++; return nil }))
require.Equal(t, want, got, "segs %d tail %d", segs, tail)
}
}
}
// TestFlowStagedTXOrderAndCounters runs the staged transmit pipeline with shuffled workers and a slow socket, so the
// sender lags and the reader runs into backpressure, then fails the tun read with batches in flight: the wire must
// carry every segment once, in tun read order, under strictly increasing counters that were each reserved exactly
// once, and the read error is still reported.
func TestFlowStagedTXOrderAndCounters(t *testing.T) {
defer goleak.VerifyNone(t, goleak.IgnoreCurrent())
for _, cipher := range []noise.CipherFunc{noiseutil.CipherAESGCM, noise.CipherChaChaPoly} {
t.Run(cipher.CipherName(), func(t *testing.T) {
if cipher.CipherName() == noiseutil.CipherAESGCM.CipherName() && noiseutil.EncryptLockNeeded {
t.Skip("AES-GCM requires encryption in nonce order")
}
sender, receiver := newFlowTestPair(t, cipher, stagedOn(4))
delayCrypto(sender, func(n uint64) {
if n%54 == 0 {
time.Sleep(time.Millisecond)
}
})
// Far slower than the reader, even under the race detector
sender.conn.delay = 8 * time.Millisecond
batches, want := flowTestBatches(60, 6, 3, 9)
start := sender.hostinfo.ConnectionState.messageCounter.Load()
tx := metrics.GetOrRegisterCounter("flow.tx.batches", nil)
tx0 := tx.Count()
sender.f.listenIn(newFlowBatchQueue(batches), 0)
require.Equal(t, int64(len(batches)), tx.Count()-tx0, "every batch uses the ordered sender")
require.Equal(t, want, decryptWire(t, receiver, sender.conn.captured()), "wire order must match tun read order")
require.Equal(t, start+uint64(len(want)), sender.hostinfo.ConnectionState.messageCounter.Load())
require.NotNil(t, sender.f.fatalErr.Load())
})
}
}
// TestFlowStagedTXCloseInFlight closes the interface and tun while batches are in flight, 20 times over.
func TestFlowStagedTXCloseInFlight(t *testing.T) {
defer goleak.VerifyNone(t, goleak.IgnoreCurrent())
for range 20 {
sender, _ := newFlowTestPair(t, noise.CipherChaChaPoly, stagedOn(3))
sender.conn.delay = time.Millisecond
batches, _ := flowTestBatches(400, 4, 2, 8)
q := newFlowBatchQueue(batches)
done := make(chan struct{})
go func() { sender.f.listenIn(q, 0); close(done) }()
require.Eventually(t, func() bool { return q.reads.Load() > 5 }, 5*time.Second, 100*time.Microsecond)
sender.f.closed.Store(true)
require.NoError(t, q.Close())
<-done
}
}
// TestFlowStagedTXExhausted drops every batch of a tunnel whose counter runs out, like inline sends do.
func TestFlowStagedTXExhausted(t *testing.T) {
defer goleak.VerifyNone(t, goleak.IgnoreCurrent())
sender, _ := newFlowTestPair(t, noise.CipherChaChaPoly, stagedOn(2))
ci := sender.hostinfo.ConnectionState
ci.messageCounter.Store(RejectAfterMessages - 3)
sender.f.listenIn(newFlowBatchQueue([][]tio.Packet{{flowTCPSuperpacket(0, 0, 10)}, {flowTCPSuperpacket(0, 1, 2)}}), 0)
require.Empty(t, sender.conn.captured())
require.Equal(t, RejectAfterMessages, ci.messageCounter.Load())
require.Equal(t, int64(12), sender.f.messageMetrics.txExhausted.Count())
require.Zero(t, ci.txBudget.state.Load())
}
// TestFlowStagedTXRelay sends staged batches, and an empty read, through a relay: outer and inner layers both verify,
// in order, and go to the relay.
// With a tiny MSS, the middle superpacket alone exceeds the tunnels' whole credit: it must be split, not admitted as an
// unbounded lone batch, with either replay window.
func TestFlowStagedTXRelay(t *testing.T) {
defer goleak.VerifyNone(t, goleak.IgnoreCurrent())
for _, window := range budgetWindows {
t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("window=%d", window), func(t *testing.T) {
sender, receiver := newFlowTestPair(t, noise.CipherChaChaPoly, stagedOn(2))
sender.hostinfo.ConnectionState.window = NewBits(window)
receiver.hostinfo.ConnectionState.window = NewBits(window)
relayRemote, relayHI, relayPeer := addTestRelay(t, sender, window)
batches, want := flowTestBatches(2, 3, 1, 6)
var payload []byte
large := flowTCPSuperpacket(0, 9, 45)
large.GSO.Size = 1
payload = append([]byte(nil), large.Bytes[40:]...)
batches = [][]tio.Packet{batches[0], {large}, batches[1]}
sender.f.listenIn(newFlowBatchQueue(append(batches, nil)), 0)
wire := sender.conn.captured()
require.Len(t, wire, len(want)+len(payload))
var got []decodedSeg
var tiny []byte
var lastOuter, lastInner uint64
for i, pkt := range wire {
require.Equal(t, relayRemote, sender.conn.addrs[i])
h := &header.H{}
require.NoError(t, h.Parse(pkt))
require.Greater(t, h.MessageCounter, lastOuter)
lastOuter = h.MessageCounter
require.NoError(t, relayPeer.VerifyRelay(nil, h.MessageCounter, pkt, make([]byte, 12)))
pkt = pkt[header.Len : len(pkt)-16]
require.NoError(t, h.Parse(pkt))
require.Greater(t, h.MessageCounter, lastInner)
lastInner = h.MessageCounter
plain, err := receiver.hostinfo.ConnectionState.Decrypt(receiver.f.l, h.MessageCounter, pkt, make([]byte, 12))
require.NoError(t, err)
if len(plain) == 41 {
tiny = append(tiny, plain[40])
} else {
got = append(got, decodeSeg(plain[40:]))
}
}
require.Equal(t, want, got)
require.Equal(t, payload, tiny)
require.Zero(t, sender.hostinfo.ConnectionState.txBudget.state.Load())
require.Zero(t, relayHI.ConnectionState.txBudget.state.Load())
})
}
}
// addTestRelay makes sender reach its peer only through a relay tunnel with replay windows of window. It returns the
// relay's underlay address, its hostinfo and the relay's side of the tunnel.
func addTestRelay(t testing.TB, sender *flowTestPeer, window uint64) (netip.AddrPort, *HostInfo, *ConnectionState) {
relayInit, relayResp := runTestHandshake(t)
relayCI, err := newConnectionStateFromResult(relayInit)
require.NoError(t, err)
relayPeer, err := newConnectionStateFromResult(relayResp)
require.NoError(t, err)
relayCI.window, relayPeer.window = NewBits(window), NewBits(window)
relayAddr := netip.MustParseAddr("10.0.0.3")
relayRemote := netip.MustParseAddrPort("192.0.2.3:4242")
relay := &Relay{Type: TerminalType, State: Established, LocalIndex: 5, RemoteIndex: 6, PeerAddr: flowTestRemote}
relayHI := &HostInfo{
vpnAddrs: []netip.Addr{relayAddr},
ConnectionState: relayCI,
relayState: RelayState{
relayForByAddr: map[netip.Addr]*Relay{flowTestRemote: relay},
relayForByIdx: map[uint32]*Relay{relay.LocalIndex: relay},
},
}
relayHI.remote.Store(&relayRemote)
sender.f.hostMap.Hosts[relayAddr] = relayHI
sender.hostinfo.remote.Store(&netip.AddrPort{})
sender.hostinfo.relayState.relays = []netip.Addr{relayAddr}
return relayRemote, relayHI, relayPeer
}
// affinityQueue makes every read start with an idle pipeline: before each read it waits until conn has sent what was
// read before, recording how many sends that took, then samples the reader's actual thread affinity.
type affinityQueue struct {
*flowBatchQueue
conn *affinityConn
sent int
boundaries []int
masks []unix.CPUSet
}
func (q *affinityQueue) Read() ([]tio.Packet, error) {
if n := q.reads.Load(); n > 0 {
for _, p := range q.batches[n-1] {
q.sent += p.SegmentCount()
}
}
q.boundaries = append(q.boundaries, q.conn.waitFor(q.sent))
q.masks = append(q.masks, threadMask())
return q.flowBatchQueue.Read()
}
// affinityConn captures every send, sampling the sending thread's actual affinity in each WriteBatch.
type affinityConn struct {
flowCaptureConn
masks []unix.CPUSet
}
func (c *affinityConn) WriteBatch(p [][]byte, addrs []netip.AddrPort) (int, error) {
mask := threadMask()
c.mu.Lock()
c.masks = append(c.masks, mask)
c.mu.Unlock()
return c.flowCaptureConn.WriteBatch(p, addrs)
}
// waitFor waits until n packets were sent and returns how many WriteBatch calls that took.
func (c *affinityConn) waitFor(n int) int {
for len(c.captured()) < n {
time.Sleep(50 * time.Microsecond)
}
c.mu.Lock()
defer c.mu.Unlock()
return len(c.masks)
}
func threadMask() unix.CPUSet {
var mask unix.CPUSet
if err := unix.SchedGetaffinity(0, &mask); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
return mask
}
// requireFlowCPU checks every mask is just cpu, or with cpu -1, the whole allowed set.
func requireFlowCPU(t *testing.T, masks []unix.CPUSet, cpu int, allowed []int) {
t.Helper()
require.NotEmpty(t, masks)
for _, mask := range masks {
if cpu >= 0 {
require.Equal(t, 1, mask.Count())
require.True(t, mask.IsSet(cpu), "expected CPU %d", cpu)
continue
}
require.Equal(t, len(allowed), mask.Count())
for _, c := range allowed {
require.True(t, mask.IsSet(c))
}
}
}
// TestFlowStagedTXAffinity sends large, small and large reads, each from an idle pipeline, and checks the order on the
// wire and where the reader and each send actually ran, for every CPU placement, with one routine and with several. A
// staged sender is only pinned to an explicit entry other than its reader's CPU, and inline sends stay on the reader.
// With the threshold, only the small read goes inline.
// The reader only reads again once its earlier reads are on the wire, so this also checks the sender never waits for
// the reader. Pinning threads changes the process, so the test runs in a child.
func TestFlowStagedTXAffinity(t *testing.T) {
if os.Getenv("NEBULA_FLOW_AFFINITY_TEST") != "1" {
cmd := exec.Command(os.Args[0], "-test.run=^TestFlowStagedTXAffinity$")
cmd.Env = append(os.Environ(), "NEBULA_FLOW_AFFINITY_TEST=1")
out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
require.NoError(t, err, "%s", out)
return
}
allowed, err := util.AllowedCPUs()
require.NoError(t, err)
for _, placement := range []string{"fallback", "automatic", "explicit", "explicit-single"} {
for _, pin := range []bool{false, true} {
for _, sc := range sendPaths() {
for _, routines := range []int{1, 2} {
t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("%s/pin=%t/%s/routines=%d", placement, pin, stagedName(sc), routines), func(t *testing.T) {
if pin && len(allowed) < 2 {
t.Skip("requires at least two allowed CPUs")
}
sender, receiver := newFlowTestPair(t, noise.CipherChaChaPoly, sc)
f := sender.f
f.pinThreads, f.routines = pin, routines
switch placement {
case "automatic":
f.defaultCpuAffinity = cpupick.Default(routines, 4242, nil)
case "explicit":
f.cpuAffinity = []int{allowed[len(allowed)-1], allowed[0]}
case "explicit-single":
f.cpuAffinity = allowed[len(allowed)-1:]
}
readerCPU, sendCPU := -1, -1
if pin {
readerCPU = f.threadCPU(0)
sendCPU = readerCPU
if sc.tx {
// Never the reader's CPU, and no automatic choice: unpinned unless an explicit entry fits
sendCPU = -1
if placement == "explicit" {
sendCPU = f.cpuAffinity[1]
}
}
}
smallCPU := sendCPU
if sc.inlineBelow > 0 {
smallCPU = readerCPU
}
conn := &affinityConn{}
f.writers = []udp.Conn{conn}
batches, want := flowTestBatches(3, 8, 1, 45)
batches[1] = batches[1][:1]
want = append(want[:405], want[720:]...)
q := &affinityQueue{flowBatchQueue: newFlowBatchQueue(batches), conn: conn}
inline := metrics.GetOrRegisterCounter("flow.tx.inline", nil)
inline0 := inline.Count()
f.listenIn(q, 0)
require.Equal(t, want, decryptWire(t, receiver, conn.captured()))
if sc.inlineBelow > 0 {
require.Equal(t, int64(1), inline.Count()-inline0)
}
b := q.boundaries
requireFlowCPU(t, q.masks, readerCPU, allowed)
requireFlowCPU(t, conn.masks[:b[1]], sendCPU, allowed)
requireFlowCPU(t, conn.masks[b[1]:b[2]], smallCPU, allowed)
requireFlowCPU(t, conn.masks[b[2]:], sendCPU, allowed)
})
}
}
}
}
}
// sendPaths is inline, staged and, with the threshold, adaptive transmit.
func sendPaths() []stagedConfig {
return []stagedConfig{{}, stagedOn(2), adaptive(2)}
}
// requireAccepted checks the receiver accepts every packet of wire in the order given. With several readers the wire
// order differs from counter order, but every packet must still authenticate and fit within the replay window.
func requireAccepted(t *testing.T, receiver *flowTestPeer, wire [][]byte) {
t.Helper()
for _, pkt := range wire {
h := &header.H{}
require.NoError(t, h.Parse(pkt))
_, err := receiver.hostinfo.ConnectionState.Decrypt(receiver.f.l, h.MessageCounter, pkt, make([]byte, 12))
require.NoError(t, err, "counter %d", h.MessageCounter)
}
}
// slowConn delays every WriteBatch, then writes to the shared capture.
type slowConn struct {
*flowCaptureConn
delay time.Duration
}
func (c slowConn) WriteBatch(bufs [][]byte, addrs []netip.AddrPort) (int, error) {
time.Sleep(c.delay)
return c.flowCaptureConn.WriteBatch(bufs, addrs)
}
// TestFlowTXBudgetManyReaders saturates one tunnel from eight readers, one of them on a slow socket that lets the
// others overtake it, alongside a burst of unreserved control messages: in the order they reach the wire, every packet
// is accepted by the receiver's replay window, so none was sent twice or displaced past the window.
func TestFlowTXBudgetManyReaders(t *testing.T) {
defer goleak.VerifyNone(t, goleak.IgnoreCurrent())
for _, window := range budgetWindows {
t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("window=%d", window), func(t *testing.T) {
sender, receiver := newFlowTestPair(t, noise.CipherChaChaPoly, stagedOn(3))
ci := sender.hostinfo.ConnectionState
ci.window = NewBits(window)
receiver.hostinfo.ConnectionState.window = NewBits(window)
sender.f.routines = 8
sender.f.writers = append([]udp.Conn{slowConn{sender.conn, 4 * time.Millisecond}}, slices.Repeat(sender.f.writers, 8)...)
start := ci.messageCounter.Load()
var wg sync.WaitGroup
for q := range 8 {
wg.Go(func() {
batches, _ := flowTestBatches(28, 8, 2, 45)
p := newStagedTx(sender.f, newFlowBatchQueue(nil), q)
defer p.close()
for _, packets := range batches {
p.send(packets)
}
})
}
// A bounded burst of unreserved control messages uses the documented margin, on writer 8
wg.Go(func() {
for range 128 {
sender.f.sendNoMetrics(header.Test, header.TestRequest, ci, sender.hostinfo, flowTestUnder, []byte("x"), make([]byte, 12), make([]byte, mtu), 8)
time.Sleep(100 * time.Microsecond)
}
})
wg.Wait()
require.Zero(t, ci.txBudget.state.Load())
wire := sender.conn.captured()
require.Len(t, wire, 8*28*360+128)
require.Equal(t, start+uint64(len(wire)), ci.messageCounter.Load())
requireAccepted(t, receiver, wire)
})
}
}
// TestFlowStagedTXInlineOnlyWhenEmpty: a small read behind a staged batch still in flight must not go inline, it
// would overtake that batch.
func TestFlowStagedTXInlineOnlyWhenEmpty(t *testing.T) {
defer goleak.VerifyNone(t, goleak.IgnoreCurrent())
sc := adaptive(2)
sc.inlineBelow = 4
sender, receiver := newFlowTestPair(t, noise.CipherChaChaPoly, sc)
p := newStagedTx(sender.f, newFlowBatchQueue(nil), 0)
block := make(chan struct{})
delayCrypto(sender, func(uint64) { <-block })
batches, want := flowTestBatches(1, 4, 1, 3)
p.send(batches[0][:3]) // its worker is blocked
p.send(batches[0][3:])
close(block)
p.close()
require.Equal(t, want, decryptWire(t, receiver, sender.conn.captured()))
}
// TestFlowStagedTXAdaptiveBudget: a fast reader's adaptive sends must stop spending credit until another reader's
// earlier reservation reaches the wire.
func TestFlowStagedTXAdaptiveBudget(t *testing.T) {
for _, shape := range []struct {
name string
packets, segments int
}{
{"single", 1, 1}, {"batch", 8, 30},
} {
t.Run(shape.name, func(t *testing.T) {
defer goleak.VerifyNone(t, goleak.IgnoreCurrent())
sender, receiver := newFlowTestPair(t, noise.CipherChaChaPoly, adaptive(2))
sender.f.routines = 2
sender.f.writers = []udp.Conn{sender.conn, sender.conn}
ci := sender.hostinfo.ConnectionState
start := ci.messageCounter.Load()
entered, unblock := make(chan struct{}), make(chan struct{})
delayCrypto(sender, func(n uint64) {
if n == start+1 {
close(entered)
<-unblock
}
})
p0 := newStagedTx(sender.f, newFlowBatchQueue(nil), 0)
p1 := newStagedTx(sender.f, newFlowBatchQueue(nil), 1)
defer p0.close()
defer p1.close()
var release sync.Once
defer release.Do(func() { close(unblock) })
large, _ := flowTestBatches(1, 8, 1, 45)
p0.send(large[0])
<-entered
perBatch := shape.packets * shape.segments
small, _ := flowTestBatches(9600/perBatch, shape.packets, 1, shape.segments)
fits := int(ci.txBudgetLimit()-360) / perBatch
for _, packets := range small[:fits] {
p1.send(packets)
}
require.Equal(t, uint64(360+fits*perBatch), (ci.txBudget.state.Load()>>24)&txBudgetMask, "inline sends must spend shared credit")
done := make(chan struct{})
go func() {
defer close(done)
for _, packets := range small[fits:] {
p1.send(packets)
}
}()
select {
case <-done:
t.Error("adaptive reader bypassed outstanding credit")
case <-time.After(50 * time.Millisecond):
}
require.LessOrEqual(t, ci.messageCounter.Load()-start, ci.txBudgetLimit())
release.Do(func() { close(unblock) })
<-done
p0.drain()
p1.drain()
wire := sender.conn.captured()
require.Len(t, wire, 360+40*240)
requireAccepted(t, receiver, wire)
require.Zero(t, ci.txBudget.state.Load())
})
}
}
// BenchmarkFlowStagedTX runs reads of eight 45-segment superpackets through listenIn into a socket that discards
// them, inline and staged.
func BenchmarkFlowStagedTX(b *testing.B) {
for _, cipher := range []noise.CipherFunc{noiseutil.CipherAESGCM, noise.CipherChaChaPoly} {
for _, sc := range []stagedConfig{{}, stagedOn(4)} {
b.Run(cipher.CipherName()+"/"+stagedName(sc), func(b *testing.B) {
if sc.tx && cipher.CipherName() == noiseutil.CipherAESGCM.CipherName() && noiseutil.EncryptLockNeeded {
b.Skip("AES-GCM requires encryption in nonce order")
}
sender, _ := newFlowTestPair(b, cipher, sc)
sender.f.writers = []udp.Conn{udp.NoopConn{}}
batch, _ := flowTestBatches(1, 8, 4, 45)
batches := make([][]tio.Packet, b.N)
for i := range batches {
batches[i] = batch[0]
}
b.SetBytes(int64(8 * 45 * flowTestMSS))
b.ReportAllocs()
b.ResetTimer()
sender.f.listenIn(newFlowBatchQueue(batches), 0)
})
}
}
}