netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 0/2] net/sched: cls_flower, act

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Date:	Sun, 14 Aug 2016 10:53:30 -0700
From:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Amir Vadai <amir@...ai.me>
Cc:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	Hadar Har-Zion <hadarh@...lanox.com>,
	Oded Shanoon <odeds@...lanox.com>,
	Amir Vadai <amirva@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 0/2] net/sched: cls_flower, act_mirred: VXLAN
 redirect using TC

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Amir Vadai <amir@...ai.me> wrote:
> tc qdisc add dev $ETH ingress
>
> # ENCAP rule for ARP
> tc filter add dev $ETH protocol 0x806 parent ffff: prio 11 \
>                 flower \
>                 action mirred egress redirect dev $VXLAN enc_src_ip 11.11.0.1 enc_dst_ip 11.11.0.2 enc_key_id 11 enc_dst_port 4789
>
> # ENCAP rule for ICMP
> tc filter add dev $ETH protocol ip parent ffff: prio 10 \
>                 flower ip_proto 1 \
>                 action mirred egress redirect dev $VXLAN enc_src_ip 11.11.0.1 enc_dst_ip 11.11.0.2 enc_key_id 11 enc_dst_port 4789
>

I don't like this. This makes mirred action unnecessarily
complex, it should really just mirror or redirect packets as
it is, why it should be aware of tunnel information?

I think you probably need to introduce a new tc action
for these tunnel information and pipe it to mirred.