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Output of 'fw ctl affinity' does not show FWK affinity to CPU core after upgrade of R80.30 Security Gateway to R80.40 Technical Level
Symptoms
  • Output of 'fw ctl affinity' does not show FWK affinity to CPU core after upgrade of R80.30 Security Gateway with kernel 3.10 to R80.40.

  • Output of "fw ctl affinity -l -v" is missing FWK affinity to CPU core info:

    [Expert@Lab-23500:0]# fw ctl affinity -l -v
    Interface Mgmt (irq 63): CPU 0
    Interface eth4-01 (irq 85): CPU 1
    Interface eth3-01 (irq 154): CPU 2
    Interface eth2-01: has multi queue enabled
    Interface eth1-01: has multi queue enabled
    [Expert@Lab-23500:0]#

  • Output of "fw ctl affinity -l -r" shows that all of the instances are affined to all of the CPUs:

    Expert@Lab-23500:0]# fw ctl affinity -l -r
    CPU 0: Mgmt
    CPU 1: eth4-01
    CPU 2: eth3-01
    CPU 3:
    .....
    .....
    CPU 37:
    CPU 38:
    CPU 39:
    All: fw_0 fw_1 fw_2 fw_3 fw_4 fw_5 fw_6 fw_7 fw_8 fw_9 fw_10 fw_11 fw_12 fw_13 fw_14 fw_15 fw_16 fw_17 fw_18 fw_19
    mpdaemon fwd lpd in.asessiond cprid cpd
    Interface eth2-01: has multi queue enabled
    Interface eth1-01: has multi queue enabled
    [Expert@Lab-23500:0]#

  • In the output of "fw multik stat" you can see that all of the instances are affined to all of the CPUs, for example:

    [Expert@Lab-23500:0]# fw ctl multik stat
    ID | Active | CPU | Connections | Peak
    ----------------------------------------------
    0 | Yes | all | 0 | 1
    1 | Yes | all | 1 | 1
    3 | Yes | all | 1 | 1
    4 | Yes | all | 0 | 1
    5 | Yes | all | 0 | 1
    6 | Yes | all | 0 | 1
    7 | Yes | all | 2 | 2
    8 | Yes | all | 0 | 1
    …..
    …..
    18 | Yes | all | 0 | 1
    19 | Yes | all | 0 | 1
    [Expert@Lab-23500:0]#

  • This issue is not seen when performing an In-place upgrade R80.30 with kernel 2.6.18 to R80.40.

  • This issue is not seen on a Clean installed R80.40.

Solution
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