netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/4] switchdev: avoid duplicate packet forwarding

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Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:25:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sfeldma@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...nulli.us,
	simon.horman@...ronome.com, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
	ronen.arad@...el.com, john.r.fastabend@...el.com, andrew@...n.ch,
	f.fainelli@...il.com, linux@...ck-us.net, davidch@...adcom.com,
	stephen@...workplumber.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/4] switchdev: avoid duplicate packet
 forwarding

From: sfeldma@...il.com
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 11:04:26 -0700

> The switchdev port driver must do two things:
> 
> 1) Generate a fwd_mark for each switch port, using some unique key of the
>    switch device (and optionally port).  This is a one-time operation done
>    when port's netdev is setup.
> 
> 2) On packet ingress from port, mark the skb with the ingress port's
>    fwd_mark.  If the device supports it, it's useful to only mark skbs
>    which were already forwarded by the device.  If the device does not
>    support such indication, all skbs can be marked, even if they're
>    local dst.
> 
> Two new 32-bit fields are added to struct sk_buff and struct netdevice to
> hold the fwd_mark.  I've wrapped these with CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV for now. I
> tried using skb->mark for this purpose, but ebtables can overwrite the
> skb->mark before the bridge gets it, so that will not work.
> 
> In general, this fwd_mark can be used for any case where a packet is
> forwarded by the device and a copy is sent to the CPU, to avoid the kernel
> re-forwarding the packet.  sFlow is another use-case that comes to mind,
> but I haven't explored the details.

Generally I'm against adding new fields fo sk_buff but I'm trying to be
open minded. :-)

About the per-device fwd_mark, if the key attribute is uniqueness,
let's just do it right and use something like lib/idr.c to generate
truly unique indices at probe time for all devices using this
facility.  I like that better than having them be unique by a happy
accident.
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