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Intel QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT) provides hardware acceleration for security (cryptography) and compression. These instructions cover the steps for Clear Linux but can be adapted to any Linux distribution. Your distribution may already have the Intel QAT drivers, but it is likely they do not contain the necessary user space components. These instructions guide the user on how to download the kernel sources, compile kernel driver modules against those sources, and load them onto the host as well as preparing a specially built Kata Containers kernel and custom Kata Containers rootfs.
Intel QuickAssist Technology at 01.org
Intel Device Plugin for Kubernetes
Intel QuickAssist Crypto Poll Mode Driver
There are some steps to complete only once, some steps to complete with every reboot, and some steps to complete when the host kernel changes.
The following list of variables must be set before running through the scripts. These variables refer to locations to store modules and configuration files on the host and links to the drivers to use. Modify these as needed to point to updated drivers or different install locations.
Make sure to check 01.org for
the latest driver.
$ export QAT_DRIVER_VER=qat1.7.l.4.6.0-00025.tar.gz
$ export QAT_DRIVER_URL=https://01.org/sites/default/files/downloads/${QAT_DRIVER_VER}
$ export QAT_CONF_LOCATION=~/QAT_conf
$ export QAT_DOCKERFILE=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/intel-device-plugins-for-kubernetes/master/demo/openssl-qat-engine/Dockerfile
$ export QAT_SRC=~/src/QAT
$ export GOPATH=~/src/go
$ export OSBUILDER=~/src/osbuilder
$ export KATA_KERNEL_LOCATION=~/kata
$ export KATA_ROOTFS_LOCATION=~/kataThe host could be a bare metal instance or a virtual machine. If using a virtual machine, make sure that KVM nesting is enabled. The following instructions reference an Intel QAT. Some of the instructions must be modified if using a different Intel QAT device. You can identify the Intel QAT chipset by executing the following.
$ for i in 0434 0435 37c8 1f18 1f19; do lspci -d 8086:$i; doneClear Linux version 30780 (Released August 13, 2019) includes a
linux-firmware-qat bundle that has the necessary QAT firmware along with a
functional QAT host driver that works with Kata Containers.
$ sudo swupd bundle-add network-basic linux-firmware-qat make c-basic go-basic containers-virt dev-utils devpkg-elfutils devpkg-systemd
$ sudo clr-boot-manager update
$ sudo systemctl start docker
$ sudo systemctl enable docker
$ sudo rebootThis will download the Intel QAT drivers from 01.org.
Make sure to check the website for the latest version.
$ mkdir -p $QAT_SRC
$ cd $QAT_SRC
$ curl -L $QAT_DRIVER_URL | tar zxModify the instructions below as necessary if using a different QAT hardware
platform. You can learn more about customizing configuration files at the
Intel QAT Engine repository
This section starts from a base config file and changes the SSL section to
SHIM to support the OpenSSL engine. There are more tweaks that you can make
depending on the use case and how many Intel QAT engines should be run. You
can find more information about how to customize in the
Intel® QuickAssist Technology Software for Linux* - Programmer's Guide.
Note: This section assumes that a QAT
c6xxplatform is used.
$ mkdir -p $QAT_CONF_LOCATION
$ cp $QAT_SRC/quickassist/utilities/adf_ctl/conf_files/c6xxvf_dev0.conf.vm $QAT_CONF_LOCATION/c6xxvf_dev0.conf
$ sed -i 's/\[SSL\]/\[SHIM\]/g' $QAT_CONF_LOCATION/c6xxvf_dev0.confTo enable virtual functions, the host OS should have IOMMU groups enabled. In
the UEFI Firmware Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O
(Intel VT-d) must be enabled. Also, the kernel boot parameter should be
intel_iommu=on or intel_iommu=ifgx_off. The default in Clear Linux currently
is intel_iommu=igfx_off which should work with the Intel QAT device. The
following commands assume you installed an Intel QAT card, IOMMU is on, and
VT-d is enabled. The vendor and device ID add to the VFIO-PCI driver so that
each exposed virtual function can be bound to the VFIO-PCI driver. Once
complete, each virtual function passes into a Kata Containers container using
the PCIe device passthrough feature. For Kubernetes, the Intel device plugin
for Kubernetes handles the binding of the driver but the VF’s still must be
enabled.
$ sudo modprobe vfio-pci
$ QAT_PCI_BUS_PF_NUMBERS=$((lspci -d :435 && lspci -d :37c8 && lspci -d :19e2 && lspci -d :6f54) | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
$ QAT_PCI_BUS_PF_1=$(echo $QAT_PCI_BUS_PF_NUMBERS | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
$ echo 16 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:$QAT_PCI_BUS_PF_1/sriov_numvfs
$ QAT_PCI_ID_VF=$(cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:${QAT_PCI_BUS_PF_1}/virtfn0/uevent | grep PCI_ID)
$ QAT_VENDOR_AND_ID_VF=$(echo ${QAT_PCI_ID_VF/PCI_ID=} | sed 's/:/ /')
$ echo $QAT_VENDOR_AND_ID_VF | sudo tee --append /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/new_idLoop through all the virtual functions and bind to the VFIO driver
$ for f in /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:$QAT_PCI_BUS_PF_1/virtfn*
do QAT_PCI_BUS_VF=$(basename $(readlink $f))
echo $QAT_PCI_BUS_VF | sudo tee --append /sys/bus/pci/drivers/c6xxvf/unbind
echo $QAT_PCI_BUS_VF | sudo tee --append /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/bind
doneIf the following command returns empty, then the virtual functions are not
properly enabled. This command checks the enumerated device IDs for just the
virtual functions. Using the Intel QAT as an example, the physical device ID
is 37c8 and virtual function device ID is 37c9. The following command checks
if VF's are enabled for any of the currently known Intel QAT device ID's. The
following ls command should show the 16 VF's bound to VFIO-PCI.
$ for i in 0442 0443 37c9 19e3; do lspci -d 8086:$i; doneAnother way to check is to see what PCI devices that VFIO-PCI is mapped to.
It should match the device ID's of the VF's.
$ ls -la /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pciThis example automatically uses the latest Kata kernel supported by Kata. It
follows the instructions from the
packaging kernel repository
and uses the latest Kata kernel
config.
There are some patches that must be installed as well, which the
build-kernel.sh script should automatically apply. If you are using a
different kernel version, then you might need to manually apply them. Since
the Kata Containers kernel has a minimal set of kernel flags set, you must
create a QAT kernel fragment with the necessary CONFIG_CRYPTO_* options set.
Update the config to set some of the CRYPTO flags to enabled. This might
change with different kernel versions. We tested the following instructions
with kernel v4.19.28-41.
$ mkdir -p $GOPATH
$ cd $GOPATH
$ go get -v github.com/kata-containers/packaging
$ cat << EOF > $GOPATH/src/github.com/kata-containers/packaging/kernel/configs/fragments/common/qat.conf
CONFIG_PCIEAER=y
CONFIG_UIO=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_HW=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_QAT_C62XVF=m
CONFIG_CRYPTO_CBC=y
EOF
$ $GOPATH/src/github.com/kata-containers/packaging/kernel/build-kernel.sh setup$ export LINUX_VER=$(ls -d kata*)
$ sed -i 's/EXTRAVERSION =/EXTRAVERSION = .qat.container/' $LINUX_VER/Makefile
$ $GOPATH/src/github.com/kata-containers/packaging/kernel/build-kernel.sh build$ mkdir -p $KATA_KERNEL_LOCATION
$ cp $LINUX_VER/arch/x86/boot/bzImage $KATA_KERNEL_LOCATION/vmlinuz-${LINUX_VER}_qatThese instructions build upon the OS builder instructions located in the
Developer Guide. The following instructions use Clear
Linux (Kata Containers default) as the root filesystem with systemd as the
init and will add in the kmod binary, which is not a standard binary in a
Kata rootfs image. The kmod binary is necessary to load the QAT kernel
modules when the virtual machine rootfs boots. You should install Docker on
your system before running the following commands. If you need to use a custom
kata-agent, then refer to the previous link on how to add it in.
$ mkdir -p $OSBUILDER
$ cd $OSBUILDER
$ git clone https://github.com/kata-containers/osbuilder.git
$ export ROOTFS_DIR=${OSBUILDER}/osbuilder/rootfs-builder/rootfs
$ export EXTRA_PKGS='kmod'Make sure that the kata-agent version matches the installed kata-runtime
version.
$ export AGENT_VERSION=$(kata-runtime version | head -n 1 | grep -o "[0-9.]\+")
$ cd ${OSBUILDER}/osbuilder/rootfs-builder
$ sudo rm -rf ${ROOTFS_DIR}
$ script -fec 'sudo -E GOPATH=$GOPATH USE_DOCKER=true SECCOMP=no ./rootfs.sh clearlinux'After the Kata Containers kernel builds with the proper configuration flags,
you must build the Intel QAT drivers against that Kata Containers kernel
version in a similar way they were previously built for the host OS. You must
set the KERNEL_SOURCE_ROOT variable to the Kata Containers kernel source
directory and build the Intel QAT drivers again.
$ cd $GOPATH
$ export LINUX_VER=$(ls -d kata*)
$ export KERNEL_MAJOR_VERSION=$(awk '/^VERSION =/{print $NF}' $GOPATH/$LINUX_VER/Makefile)
$ export KERNEL_PATHLEVEL=$(awk '/^PATCHLEVEL =/{print $NF}' $GOPATH/$LINUX_VER/Makefile)
$ export KERNEL_SUBLEVEL=$(awk '/^SUBLEVEL =/{print $NF}' $GOPATH/$LINUX_VER/Makefile)
$ export KERNEL_EXTRAVERSION=$(awk '/^EXTRAVERSION =/{print $NF}' $GOPATH/$LINUX_VER/Makefile)
$ export KERNEL_ROOTFS_DIR=${KERNEL_MAJOR_VERSION}.${KERNEL_PATHLEVEL}.${KERNEL_SUBLEVEL}${KERNEL_EXTRAVERSION}
$ cd $QAT_SRC
$ sudo -E make clean
$ KERNEL_SOURCE_ROOT=$GOPATH/$LINUX_VER ./configure --disable-qat-lkcf --enable-icp-sriov=guest
$ sudo -E make quickassist-all -j$(nproc)
$ sudo -E make INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$ROOTFS_DIR qat-driver-install -j$(nproc)The usdm_drv module also needs to be copied into the rootfs modules path and
depmod should be run.
$ sudo cp $QAT_SRC/build/usdm_drv.ko $ROOTFS_DIR/usr/lib/modules/${KERNEL_ROOTFS_DIR}/updates/drivers
$ sudo depmod -a -b ${ROOTFS_DIR} ${KERNEL_ROOTFS_DIR}
$ cd ${OSBUILDER}/osbuilder/image-builder
$ script -fec 'sudo -E USE_DOCKER=true ./image_builder.sh ${ROOTFS_DIR}'Note: Ignore any errors on modules.builtin and modules.order when running
depmod.
$ mkdir -p $KATA_ROOTFS_LOCATION
$ cp ${OSBUILDER}/osbuilder/image-builder/kata-containers.img $KATA_ROOTFS_LOCATIONYou must update the configuration.toml for Kata Containers to point to the
custom kernel, custom rootfs, and to specify which modules to load when the
virtual machine is booted when a container is run. The following example
assumes you installed an Intel QAT, and you need to load those modules.
$ sudo mkdir -p /etc/kata-containers
$ sudo cp /usr/share/defaults/kata-containers/configuration-qemu.toml /etc/kata-containers/configuration.toml
$ sudo sed -i "s|kernel_params = \"\"|kernel_params = \"modules-load=usdm_drv,qat_c62xvf\"|g" /etc/kata-containers/configuration.toml
$ sudo sed -i "s|\/usr\/share\/kata-containers\/kata-containers.img|${KATA_KERNEL_LOCATION}\/kata-containers.img|g" /etc/kata-containers/configuration.toml
$ sudo sed -i "s|\/usr\/share\/kata-containers\/vmlinuz.container|${KATA_ROOTFS_LOCATION}\/vmlinuz-${LINUX_VER}_qat|g" /etc/kata-containers/configuration.tomlThe following instructions leverage an OpenSSL Dockerfile that builds the Intel QAT engine to allow OpenSSL to offload crypto functions. It is a convenient way to test that VFIO device passthrough for the Intel QAT VF’s are working properly with the Kata Containers VM.
Use the OpenSSL Intel QAT Dockerfile
to build a container image with an optimized OpenSSL engine for
Intel QAT. Using docker build with the Kata Containers runtime can sometimes
have issues. Therefore, we recommended you change the default runtime to
runc before doing a build. Instructions for this are below.
$ cd $QAT_SRC
$ curl -O $QAT_DOCKERFILE
$ sudo sed -i 's/kata-runtime/runc/g' /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/50-runtime.conf
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl restart docker
$ sudo docker build -t openssl-qat-engine .Note: The Intel QAT driver version in this container might not match the Intel QAT driver compiled and loaded on the host when compiling.
The host should already be setup with 16 virtual functions of the Intel QAT
card bound to VFIO-PCI. Verify this by looking in /dev/vfio for a listing
of devices. Replace the number 90 with one of the VF’s exposed in /dev/vfio.
It might require you to add an IPC_LOCK capability to your Docker runtime
depending on which rootfs you use.
$ sudo docker run -it --runtime=kata-runtime --cap-add=IPC_LOCK --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN --device=/dev/vfio/90 -v /dev:/dev -v ${QAT_CONF_LOCATION}:/etc openssl-qat-engine bashBelow are some commands to run in the container image to verify Intel QAT is working
bash-5.0# cat /proc/modules
bash-5.0# adf_ctl restart
bash-5.0# adf_ctl status
bash-5.0# openssl engine -c -t qatTest with Intel QAT card acceleration
bash-5.0# openssl speed -engine qat -elapsed -async_jobs 72 rsa2048 Test with CPU acceleration
bash-5.0# openssl speed -elapsed rsa2048- Check that
/dev/vfiohas VF’s enabled.
$ ls /dev/vfio
57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 vfio- Check that the modules load when inside the Kata Container.
bash-5.0# egrep "qat|usdm_drv" /proc/modules
qat_c62xvf 16384 - - Live 0x0000000000000000 (O)
usdm_drv 86016 - - Live 0x0000000000000000 (O)
intel_qat 184320 - - Live 0x0000000000000000 (O)- Verify that at least the first
c6xxvf_dev0.conffile mounts inside the container image in/etc. You will need one configuration file for each VF passed into the container.
bash-5.0# ls /etc
c6xxvf_dev0.conf c6xxvf_dev11.conf c6xxvf_dev14.conf c6xxvf_dev3.conf c6xxvf_dev6.conf c6xxvf_dev9.conf resolv.conf
c6xxvf_dev1.conf c6xxvf_dev12.conf c6xxvf_dev15.conf c6xxvf_dev4.conf c6xxvf_dev7.conf hostname
c6xxvf_dev10.conf c6xxvf_dev13.conf c6xxvf_dev2.conf c6xxvf_dev5.conf c6xxvf_dev8.conf hosts-
Check
dmesginside the container to see if there are any issues with the Intel QAT driver. -
If there are issues building the OpenSSL Intel QAT container image, then check to make sure that runc is the default runtime for building container.
$ cat /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/50-runtime.conf
[Service]
Environment="DOCKER_DEFAULT_RUNTIME=--default-runtime runc"Use the lspci command to figure out which PCI bus the Intel QAT accelerators
are on. The counters will increase when the accelerator is actively being
used. To verify QAT is actively accelerating the containerized application,
use the following instructions to check if any of the counters are
incrementing. You will have to change the PCI device ID to match your system.
$ for i in 0434 0435 37c8 1f18 1f19; do lspci -d 8086:$i; done
$ sudo watch cat /sys/kernel/debug/qat_c6xx_0000\:b1\:00.0/fw_counters
$ sudo watch cat /sys/kernel/debug/qat_c6xx_0000\:b3\:00.0/fw_counters
$ sudo watch cat /sys/kernel/debug/qat_c6xx_0000\:b5\:00.0/fw_counters