Thomas Graf says:
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Lightweight & flow based encapsulation
This series combines the work previously posted by Roopa, Robert and
myself. It's according to what we discussed at NFWS. The motivation
of this series is to:
* Consolidate code between OVS and the rest of the kernel and get
rid of OVS vports and instead represent them as pure net_devices.
* Introduce a lightweight tunneling mechanism which enables flow
based encapsulation to improve scalability on both RX and TX.
* Do the above in an encapsulation unspecific way so that the
encapsulation type is eventually abstracted away from the user.
* Use the same forwarding decision for both native forwarding and
encapsulation thus allowing to switch between native IPv6 and
UDP encapsulation based on endpoint without requiring additional
logic
The fundamental changes introduces in this series are:
* A new RTA_ENCAP Netlink attribute for routes carrying encapsulation
instructions. Depending on the specified type, the instructions
apply to UDP encapsulations, MPLS and possible other in the future.
* Depending on the encapsulation type, the output function of the
dst is directly overwritten or the dst merely attaches metadata and
relies on a subsequent net_device to apply it to the packet. The
latter is typically used if an inner and outer IP header exist which
require two subsequent routing lookups to be performed.
* A new metadata_dst structure which can be attached to skbs to
carry metadata in between subsystems. This new metadata transport
is used to provide a single interface for VXLAN, routing and OVS
to communicate through metadata.
The OVS interfaces remain as-is but will transparently create a real
VXLAN net_device in the background. iproute2 is extended with a new
use cases:
VXLAN:
ip route add 40.1.1.1/32 encap vxlan id 10 dst 50.1.1.2 dev vxlan0
MPLS:
ip route add 10.1.1.0/30 encap mpls 200 via inet 10.1.1.1 dev swp1
Performance implications:
The additional memory allocation in the receive path should have
performance implications although it is not observable in standard
throughput tests if GRO is properly done. The correct net_device
model outweights the additional cost of the allocation. Furthermore,
this implication can be relaxed by reintroducing a direct unqueued
path from a software device to a consumer like bridge or OVS if
needed.
$ netperf -t TCP_STREAM -H 15.1.1.201
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to
15.1.1.201 (15.1.1.201) port 0 AF_INET : demo
Recv Send Send
Socket Socket Message Elapsed
Size Size Size Time Throughput
bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec
87380 16384 16384 10.00 9118.17
Changes since v1:
* Properly initialize tun_id as reported by Julian
* Drop dupliate netif_keep_dst() as reported by Alexei
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This gets rid of all OVS specific VXLAN code in the receive and
transmit path by using a VXLAN net_device to represent the vport.
Only a small shim layer remains which takes care of handling the
VXLAN specific OVS Netlink configuration.
Unexports vxlan_sock_add(), vxlan_sock_release(), vxlan_xmit_skb()
since they are no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This allows to get rid of the get_name() vport ops later on.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is the first step in representing all OVS vports as regular
struct net_devices. Move the net_device pointer into the vport
structure itself to get rid of struct vport_netdev.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Utilize the new metadata dst to attach encapsulation instructions to
the skb. The existing egress_tun_info via the OVS_CB() is left in
place until all tunnel vports have been converted to the new method.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This factors out the device configuration out of the RTNL newlink
API which allows for in-kernel creation of VXLAN net_devices.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This add the ability to select a routing table based on the tunnel
id which allows to maintain separate routing tables for each virtual
tunnel network.
ip rule add from all tunnel-id 100 lookup 100
ip rule add from all tunnel-id 200 lookup 200
A new static key controls the collection of metadata at tunnel level
upon demand.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This introduces a new IP tunnel lightweight tunnel type which allows
to specify IP tunnel instructions per route. Only IPv4 is supported
at this point.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a new flowi_tunnel structure which is a subset of ip_tunnel_key to
allow routes to match on tunnel metadata. For now, the tunnel id is
added to flowi_tunnel which allows for routes to be bound to specific
virtual tunnels.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Allows putting a VXLAN device into a new flow-based mode in which
skbs with a ip_tunnel_info dst metadata attached will be encapsulated
according to the instructions stored in there with the VXLAN device
defaults taken into consideration.
Similar on the receive side, if the VXLAN_F_COLLECT_METADATA flag is
set, the packet processing will populate a ip_tunnel_info struct for
each packet received and attach it to the skb using the new metadata
dst. The metadata structure will contain the outer header and tunnel
header fields which have been stripped off. Layers further up in the
stack such as routing, tc or netfitler can later match on these fields
and perform forwarding. It is the responsibility of upper layers to
ensure that the flag is set if the metadata is needed. The flag limits
the additional cost of metadata collecting based on demand.
This prepares the VXLAN device to be steered by the routing and other
subsystems which allows to support encapsulation for a large number
of tunnel endpoints and tunnel ids through a single net_device which
improves the scalability.
It also allows for OVS to leverage this mode which in turn allows for
the removal of the OVS specific VXLAN code.
Because the skb is currently scrubed in vxlan_rcv(), the attachment of
the new dst metadata is postponed until after scrubing which requires
the temporary addition of a new member to vxlan_metadata. This member
is removed again in a later commit after the indirect VXLAN receive API
has been removed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If output device wants to see the dst, inherit the dst of the
original skb and pass it on to generate the ARP request.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Introduces a new dst_metadata which enables to carry per packet metadata
between forwarding and processing elements via the skb->dst pointer.
The structure is set up to be a union. Thus, each separate type of
metadata requires its own dst instance. If demand arises to carry
multiple types of metadata concurrently, metadata dst entries can be
made stackable.
The metadata dst entry is refcnt'ed as expected for now but a non
reference counted use is possible if the reference is forced before
queueing the skb.
In order to allow allocating dsts with variable length, the existing
dst_alloc() is split into a dst_alloc() and dst_init() function. The
existing dst_init() function to initialize the subsystem is being
renamed to dst_subsys_init() to make it clear what is what.
The check before ip_route_input() is changed to ignore metadata dsts
and drop the dst inside the routing function thus allowing to interpret
metadata in a later commit.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ip_route_input() unconditionally overwrites the dst. Hide the original
dst attached to the skb by calling skb_dst_set(skb, NULL) prior to
ip_route_input().
Reported-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Rename the tunnel metadata data structures currently internal to
OVS and make them generic for use by all IP tunnels.
Both structures are kernel internal and will stay that way. Their
members are exposed to user space through individual Netlink
attributes by OVS. It will therefore be possible to extend/modify
these structures without affecting user ABI.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This implementation uses lwtunnel infrastructure to register
hooks for mpls tunnel encaps.
It picks cues from iptunnel_encaps infrastructure and previous
mpls iptunnel RFC patches from Eric W. Biederman and Robert Shearman
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is similar to ipv4 redirect of dst output to lwtunnel
output function for encapsulation and xmit.
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
For input routes with tunnel encap state this patch redirects
dst output functions to lwtunnel_output which later resolves to
the corresponding lwtunnel output function.
This has been tested to work with mpls ip tunnels.
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch introduces lwtunnel_output function to call corresponding
lwtunnels output function to xmit the packet.
It adds two variants lwtunnel_output and lwtunnel_output6 for ipv4 and
ipv6 respectively today. But this is subject to change when lwtstate will
reside in dst or dst_metadata (as per upstream discussions).
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds support in ipv6 fib functions to parse Netlink
RTA encap attributes and attach encap state data to rt6_info.
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds support in ipv4 fib functions to parse user
provided encap attributes and attach encap state data to fib_nh
and rtable.
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Provides infrastructure to parse/dump/store encap information for
light weight tunnels like mpls. Encap information for such tunnels
is associated with fib routes.
This infrastructure is based on previous suggestions from
Eric Biederman to follow the xfrm infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch introduces two new RTA attributes to attach encap
data to fib routes.
Example iproute2 command to attach mpls encap data to ipv4 routes
$ip route add 10.1.1.0/30 encap mpls 200 via inet 10.1.1.1 dev swp1
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Suggested-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Added the USB IDs 0x413c:0x81b1 for the "Dell Wireless 5809e Gobi(TM) 4G
LTE Mobile Broadband Card", a Dell-branded Sierra Wireless EM7305 LTE
card in M.2 form factor, used eg. in Dell's Latitude E7540 Notebook
series.
Signed-off-by: Pieter Hollants <pieter@hollants.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Miller
Thomas Graf
Roopa Prabhu
Pieter Hollants
Jakub Wilk