netdev - RE: [RFCv4 bluetooth-next 1/2] 6lowpan: iphc: add support for stateful compression

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Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:26:37 +0000
From:	"Duda, Lukasz" <Lukasz.Duda@...dicsemi.no>
To:	Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>
CC:	"linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org" <linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kernel@...gutronix.de" <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	"mcr@...delman.ca" <mcr@...delman.ca>,
	"martin.gergeleit@...rm.de" <martin.gergeleit@...rm.de>
Subject: RE: [RFCv4 bluetooth-next 1/2] 6lowpan: iphc: add support for
 stateful compression

Hi Alex!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Aring [mailto:alex.aring@...il.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:09
> To: Duda, Lukasz
> Cc: linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org; linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org;
> netdev@...r.kernel.org; kernel@...gutronix.de; mcr@...delman.ca;
> martin.gergeleit@...rm.de
> Subject: Re: [RFCv4 bluetooth-next 1/2] 6lowpan: iphc: add support for
> stateful compression
> 
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:29:51AM +0000, Duda, Lukasz wrote:
> > First of all great work for your series of patches on 6lowpan improvements
> and
> > stateful compression!
> >
> > I have just done some testing of this patch (without RADVD modifications),
> and
> > I can share my experiments using 6LoWPAN over BT-LE by sending simple
> ICMPv6
> > messages. Contexts for BTLE device has been added manually.
> >
> 
> did you test that with linux <-> linux? Or linux <->
> $SOME_OTHER_6LOWPAN_BTLE_STACK.
> 
> I tested it on my side with RIOT, it has 802.15.4 6LoWPAN support and
> also manipulate manually the context table.
> 

I have tested it with nRF52 BTLE device from Nordic Semiconductor 
with IoT SDK, and Linux Ubuntu with BTLE Dongle that acts as Router/Master.

> > Experiment 1:
> >
> > Router: 2001:db8::1/64 BTLE: 2001:db8::211:22FF:FE33:4455/64
> > CID 1: 2001:db8::/64
> >
> > Works fine, I see that CID 1 is used for both addresses. Router has 64 bits of
> > IID inline and BTLE node has 0.
> >
> > Experiment 2:
> >
> > Router: 2001:db8::1/64 BTLE: 2001:db8::211:22FF:FE33:4455/64
> > CID 3: 2001:db8::/64 CID 5: 2001:db8::1/128
> >
> > Works also fine, I see that both CID 3 and 5 are used, as well as both sides
> > compress its IID in the best possible way. So the patch appears to work fine
> on
> > 6LoWPAN over BT-LE.
> >
> 
> ok.
> 
> >
> > However, I notice that the folder created in the sys/kernel/debug/6lowpan/
> for
> > my bluetooth network interface is called "bt%d". And I would imagine this
> > should be "bt0", "bt1", ... and not the template?
> >
> 
> urgh, this should not happen. I use "dev->name" for that and dev is the
> netdevice structure. This should be an _unique_ interface name,
> otherwise you will getting trouble if you have two btle 6lowpan
> interfaces.
> 
> I didn't realized it because I create my interface with:
> 
> ip link add link wpan0 name lowpan0 type lowpan
> 
> but should change it into:
> 
> ip link add link wpan0 name lowpan%d type lowpan
> 
> I realized that the dev->name will be changed from template into "real"
> name after registering. This should do the job:
> 
> diff --git a/net/6lowpan/core.c b/net/6lowpan/core.c
> index c7f06f5..faf65ba 100644
> --- a/net/6lowpan/core.c
> +++ b/net/6lowpan/core.c
> @@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ int lowpan_register_netdevice(struct net_device
> *dev,
> 
>         lowpan_priv(dev)->lltype = lltype;
> 
> -       ret = lowpan_dev_debugfs_init(dev);
> +       ret = register_netdevice(dev);
>         if (ret < 0)
>                 return ret;
> 
> -       ret = register_netdevice(dev);
> +       ret = lowpan_dev_debugfs_init(dev);
>         if (ret < 0)
> -               lowpan_dev_debugfs_exit(dev);
> +               unregister_netdevice(dev);
> 
>         return ret;
>  }
> 
> I think it should be safe to do that after registering because we held the
> RTNL lock. And the interface isn't up after registering.
> 

Thanks! Your patch helped, and I acked it in separate mail thread.

> > Also, I notice that the compression for Flow Control and Traffic Label in IPv6
> > header has been modified, these fields are no longer compressed in any
> packets
> > (0b11 value) that comes from Linux Kernel (e.g. ICMP Echo Request,
> > Router Advertisement), instead I get three extra bytes (0b01 value).
> > I would like to understand reason for this modification a little better.
> 
> 0b11 means that traffic class and flow label are zero. Are you sure that
> these fields are zero inside the IPv6 header when you transmit
> "e.g. ICMP Echo Request, RA"?
> 
> Can you verify this by running tcpdump/wireshark? Or instruments some
> printk's at [0] for hdr->flow_lbl array and hdr->priority?
> 
> - Alex
> 
> [0] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/6lowpan/iphc.c#L428

I did some more linux debugging, and indeed, its IPv6 stack that already gives ip6hdr
with flow label set to some strange number. Do you know maybe the reason of this?
On Kernel version < 4.2 that field was always set to 0, thus better compression can
be applied.

Best regards,
Łukasz