linux-kernel - RE: [EXT] Re: [v1,net-next 2/5] net: qos: introduce a gate control flow action

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Date:   Tue, 24 Mar 2020 10:28:51 +0000
From:   Po Liu <po.liu@....com>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
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Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: [v1,net-next  2/5] net: qos: introduce a gate control
 flow action

Hi Jiri,

I would update descriptions more clearly.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
> Sent: 2020年3月24日 18:19
> To: Po Liu <po.liu@....com>
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> Subject: [EXT] Re: [v1,net-next 2/5] net: qos: introduce a gate control flow
> action
> 
> Caution: EXT Email
> 
> Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 04:47:40AM CET, Po.Liu@....com wrote:
> >Introduce a ingress frame gate control flow action. tc create a gate
> >action would provide a gate list to control when open/close state. when
> >the gate open state, the flow could pass but not when gate state is
> >close. The driver would repeat the gate list cyclically. User also
> >could assign a time point to start the gate list by the basetime
> >parameter. if the basetime has passed current time, start time would
> >calculate by the cycletime of the gate list.
> 
> Cannot decypher this either :/ Seriously, please make the patch
> descriptions readable.
> 

Ok.

> Also, a sentence starts with capital letter.
> 
> 
> 
> >The action gate behavior try to keep according to the IEEE 802.1Qci spec.
> >For the software simulation, require the user input the clock type.
> >
> >Below is the setting example in user space. Tc filter a stream source
> >ip address is 192.168.0.20 and gate action own two time slots. One is
> >last 200ms gate open let frame pass another is last 100ms gate close
> >let frames dropped. When the passed total frames over 8000000 bytes, it
> >will dropped in one 200000000ns time slot.
> >
> >> tc qdisc add dev eth0 ingress
> >
> >> tc filter add dev eth0 parent ffff: protocol ip \
> >          flower src_ip 192.168.0.20 \
> >          action gate index 2 clockid CLOCK_TAI \
> >          sched-entry OPEN 200000000 -1 8000000 \
> >          sched-entry CLOSE 100000000 -1 -1
> 
> The rest of the commands do not use capitals. Please lowercase these.
> 

Ok.

> 
> >
> >> tc chain del dev eth0 ingress chain 0
> >
> >"sched-entry" follow the name taprio style. gate state is
> >"OPEN"/"CLOSE". Follow the period nanosecond. Then next item is
> >internal priority value means which ingress queue should put. "-1"
> >means wildcard. The last value optional specifies the maximum number
> of
> >MSDU octets that are permitted to pass the gate during the specified
> >time interval.
> >Base-time is not set will be as 0 as default, as result start time
> >would be ((N + 1) * cycletime) which is the minimal of future time.
> >
> >Below example shows filtering a stream with destination mac address is
> >10:00:80:00:00:00 and ip type is ICMP, follow the action gate. The gate
> >action would run with one close time slot which means always keep close.
> >The time cycle is total 200000000ns. The base-time would calculate by:
> >
> > 1357000000000 + (N + 1) * cycletime
> >
> >When the total value is the future time, it will be the start time.
> >The cycletime here would be 200000000ns for this case.
> >
> >> tc filter add dev eth0 parent ffff:  protocol ip \
> >          flower skip_hw ip_proto icmp dst_mac 10:00:80:00:00:00 \
> >          action gate index 12 base-time 1357000000000 \
> >          sched-entry CLOSE 200000000 -1 -1 \
> >          clockid CLOCK_TAI
> >
> >NOTE: This software simulator version not separate the admin/operation
> >state machine. Update setting would overwrite stop the previos setting
> >and waiting new cycle start.
> >
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
> >diff --git a/net/sched/Kconfig b/net/sched/Kconfig index
> >bfbefb7bff9d..320471a0a21d 100644
> >--- a/net/sched/Kconfig
> >+++ b/net/sched/Kconfig
> >@@ -981,6 +981,21 @@ config NET_ACT_CT
> >         To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the
> >         module will be called act_ct.
> >
> >+config NET_ACT_GATE
> >+      tristate "Frame gate list control tc action"
> >+      depends on NET_CLS_ACT
> >+      help
> >+        Say Y here to allow the control the ingress flow by the gate
> >+list
> 
> "to control"?

Ok.

> 
> 
> >+        control. The frame policing by the time gate list control
> >+ open/close
> 
> Incomplete sentence.
> 
> 
> >+        cycle time. The manipulation will simulate the IEEE 802.1Qci stream
> >+        gate control behavior. The action could be offload by the tc flower
> >+        to hardware driver which the hardware own the capability of IEEE
> >+        802.1Qci.
> 
> We do not mention offload for the other actions. I suggest to not to
> mention it here either.

Ok.

> 
> 
> >+
> >+        If unsure, say N.
> >+        To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the
> >+        module will be called act_gate.
> >+
> > config NET_IFE_SKBMARK
> >       tristate "Support to encoding decoding skb mark on IFE action"
> >       depends on NET_ACT_IFE
> 
> [...]

Thanks!

Br,
Po Liu