netdev - Re: Flows! Offload them.

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Date:	Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:33:18 -0500
From:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
	Shrijeet Mukherjee <shrijeet@...il.com>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
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Subject: Re: Flows! Offload them.

On 02/26/15 10:39, John Fastabend wrote:

> So I think there is a relatively simple solution for this. Assuming
> I read the description correctly namely packet ingress' nic/switch
> and you want it to land in a namespace.
>
> Today we support offloaded macvlan's and SR-IOV. What I would expect
> is user creates a set of macvlan's that are "offloaded" this just means
> they are bound to a set of hardware queues and do not go through the
> normal receive path. Then assigning these to a namespace is the same
> as any other netdev.
>
> Hardware has an action to forward to "VSI" (virtual station interface)
> which matches on a packet and forwards it to either a VF or set of
> queues bound to a macvlan. Or you can do the forwarding using standards
> based protocols such as EVB (edge virtual bridging).
>
> So its a simple set of steps with the flow api,
>
> 	1. create macvlan with dfwd_offload set
> 	2. push netdev into namespace
> 	3. add flow rule to match traffic and send to VSI
> 		./flow -i ethx set_rule match xyz action fwd_vsi 3
>
> The VSI# is reported by ip link today its a bit clumsy so that interface
> could be cleaned up.
>
> Here is a case where trying to map this onto a 'tc' action in software
> is a bit awkward and you convoluted what is really a simple operation.
> Anyways this is not really an "offload" in the sense that your taking
> something that used to run in software and moving it 1:1 into hardware.
> Adding SR-IOV/VMDQ support requries new constructs. By the way if you
> don't like my "flow" tool and you want to move it onto "tc" that could
> be done as well but the steps are the same.
>

Sorry for the top post - just wanted to leave the context intact.
TU (that is a "thumbs up" from an anti +1 person) on what you said
above. But i dont see the issue you bring up in step #3. If i was to
say:

tc filter add ingress ethx classifier foo priority X \
match xyz action redirect macvlan3 offload

where "offload" sets the netlink or classifier specific instruction
to offload.

You can easily map macvlan3 to vsi 3.

cheers,
jamal



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