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Message-ID: <20120412130959.GA31379@verge.net.au>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:10:03 +0900
From: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: dev@...nvswitch.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v3] Add TCP encap_rcv hook
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:20:29AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 16:42 +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > This hook is based on a hook of the same name provided by UDP. It provides
> > a way for to receive packets that have a TCP header and treat them in some
> > alternate way.
> >
> > It is intended to be used by an implementation of the STT tunneling
> > protocol within Open vSwtich's datapath. A prototype of such an
> > implementation has been made.
> >
> > The STT draft is available at
> > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-davie-stt-01
> >
> > My prototype STT implementation has been posted to the dev@...nvswtich.org.
> > The first version can be found at:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@openvswitch.org/msg08877.html
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
> >
>
> Hi Simon
>
> Oh well, this is insane :(
>
> > ---
> > include/linux/tcp.h | 3 +++
> > net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > v3
> > * First post to netdev
> > * Replace more UDP references with TCP
> > * Move socket accesses to inside socket lock
> > and release lock on return.
> >
> > v2
> > * Fix comment to refer to TCP rather than UDP
> > * Allow skb to continue traversing the stack if
> > the encap_rcv callback returns a positive value.
> > This is the same behaviour as the UDP hook.
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h
> > index b6c62d2..7210b23 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/tcp.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/tcp.h
> > @@ -472,6 +472,9 @@ struct tcp_sock {
> > * contains related tcp_cookie_transactions fields.
> > */
> > struct tcp_cookie_values *cookie_values;
> > +
> > + /* For encapsulation sockets. */
> > + int (*encap_rcv)(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
> > };
> >
>
> This adds a new cache miss for all incoming tcp frames...
>
> > static inline struct tcp_sock *tcp_sk(const struct sock *sk)
> > diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> > index 3a25cf7..9898f71 100644
> > --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> > @@ -1666,8 +1666,10 @@ int tcp_v4_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
> > const struct iphdr *iph;
> > const struct tcphdr *th;
> > struct sock *sk;
> > + struct tcp_sock *tp;
> > int ret;
> > struct net *net = dev_net(skb->dev);
> > + int (*encap_rcv)(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
> >
> > if (skb->pkt_type != PACKET_HOST)
> > goto discard_it;
> > @@ -1726,9 +1728,27 @@ process:
> >
> > bh_lock_sock_nested(sk);
> > ret = 0;
> > +
> > + tp = tcp_sk(sk);
> > + encap_rcv = ACCESS_ONCE(tp->encap_rcv);
> > + if (encap_rcv != NULL) {
>
> and a new conditional...
>
> > + /*
> > + * This is an encapsulation socket so pass the skb to
> > + * the socket's tcp_encap_rcv() hook. Otherwise, just
> > + * fall through and pass this up the TCP socket.
> > + * up->encap_rcv() returns the following value:
> > + * <=0 if skb was successfully passed to the encap
> > + * handler or was discarded by it.
> > + * >0 if skb should be passed on to TCP.
> > + */
> > + if (encap_rcv(sk, skb) <= 0) {
> > + ret = 0;
> > + goto unlock_sock;
> > + }
> > + }
> > +
> > if (!sock_owned_by_user(sk)) {
> > #ifdef CONFIG_NET_DMA
> > - struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
> > if (!tp->ucopy.dma_chan && tp->ucopy.pinned_list)
> > tp->ucopy.dma_chan = dma_find_channel(DMA_MEMCPY);
> > if (tp->ucopy.dma_chan)
> > @@ -1744,6 +1764,7 @@ process:
> > NET_INC_STATS_BH(net, LINUX_MIB_TCPBACKLOGDROP);
> > goto discard_and_relse;
> > }
> > +unlock_sock:
> > bh_unlock_sock(sk);
> >
> > sock_put(sk);
>
> I dont know, this sounds as a hack. Since you obviously spent a lot of
> time on this stuff, lets be constructive.
Hi Eric,
Thanks, I didn't really expect my patch to go in smoothly as is.
Though it may well be my first brush with insanity.
>
> I really suggest you take a look at <linux/static_key.h>
>
> So that on machines without any need for this encap_rcv, we dont even
> need to fetch tp->encap_rcv
>
> if (static_key_false(&stt_active)) {
> /* stt might be used on this socket */
> encap_rcv = ACCESS_ONCE(tp->encap_rcv);
> if (encap_rcv) {
> ...
> }
> }
>
> This way, if stt is not used/loaded, we have a single NOP
>
> If stt is used, NOP is patched to a JMP stt_code
>
>
> I probably implement this idea on UDP shortly so that you can have a
> reference for your implementation.
Thanks, I see your UDP code now. I'll see about getting the same thing
working for TCP.
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