netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/5] Support for the IOAM Pre-allocated Trace with IPv6

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Date:   Sat, 29 May 2021 14:10:16 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Justin Iurman <justin.iurman@...ege.be>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, tom@...bertland.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/5] Support for the IOAM Pre-allocated
 Trace with IPv6

On Thu, 27 May 2021 17:16:47 +0200 Justin Iurman wrote:
> In-situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM) records
> operational and telemetry information in a packet while it traverses
> a path between two points in an IOAM domain. It is defined in
> draft-ietf-ippm-ioam-data [1]. IOAM data fields can be encapsulated
> into a variety of protocols. The IPv6 encapsulation is defined in
> draft-ietf-ippm-ioam-ipv6-options [2], via extension headers. IOAM
> can be used to complement OAM mechanisms based on e.g. ICMP or other
> types of probe packets.
> 
> This patchset implements support for the Pre-allocated Trace, carried
> by a Hop-by-Hop. Therefore, a new IPv6 Hop-by-Hop TLV option is
> introduced, see IANA [3]. The three other IOAM options are not included
> in this patchset (Incremental Trace, Proof-of-Transit and Edge-to-Edge).
> The main idea behind the IOAM Pre-allocated Trace is that a node
> pre-allocates some room in packets for IOAM data. Then, each IOAM node
> on the path will insert its data. There exist several interesting use-
> cases, e.g. Fast failure detection/isolation or Smart service selection.
> Another killer use-case is what we have called Cross-Layer Telemetry,
> see the demo video on its repository [4], that aims to make the entire
> stack (L2/L3 -> L7) visible for distributed tracing tools (e.g. Jaeger),
> instead of the current L5 -> L7 limited view. So, basically, this is a
> nice feature for the Linux Kernel.

Some coding comments from me. Please continue the discussion with David
re: maturity of the RFC and make sure to CC him and Yoshifuji on next
versions.