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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2021 11:59:34 -0600
From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
Cong Wang <cong.wang@...edance.com>,
Peilin Ye <peilin.ye@...edance.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next v3] tc/skbmod: Introduce SKBMOD_F_ECN option
On 8/4/21 12:15 PM, Peilin Ye wrote:
> From: Peilin Ye <peilin.ye@...edance.com>
>
> Recently we added SKBMOD_F_ECN option support to the kernel; support it in
> the tc-skbmod(8) front end, and update its man page accordingly.
>
> The 2 least significant bits of the Traffic Class field in IPv4 and IPv6
> headers are used to represent different ECN states [1]:
>
> 0b00: "Non ECN-Capable Transport", Non-ECT
> 0b10: "ECN Capable Transport", ECT(0)
> 0b01: "ECN Capable Transport", ECT(1)
> 0b11: "Congestion Encountered", CE
>
> This new option, "ecn", marks ECT(0) and ECT(1) IPv{4,6} packets as CE,
> which is useful for ECN-based rate limiting. For example:
>
> $ tc filter add dev eth0 parent 1: protocol ip prio 10 \
> u32 match ip protocol 1 0xff flowid 1:2 \
> action skbmod \
> ecn
>
> The updated tc-skbmod SYNOPSIS looks like the following:
>
> tc ... action skbmod { set SETTABLE | swap SWAPPABLE | ecn } ...
>
> Only one of "set", "swap" or "ecn" shall be used in a single tc-skbmod
> command. Trying to use more than one of them at a time is considered
> undefined behavior; pipe multiple tc-skbmod commands together instead.
> "set" and "swap" only affect Ethernet packets, while "ecn" only affects
> IP packets.
>
> Depends on kernel patch "net/sched: act_skbmod: Add SKBMOD_F_ECN option
> support", as well as iproute2 patch "tc/skbmod: Remove misinformation
> about the swap action".
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit_Congestion_Notification
>
> Reviewed-by: Cong Wang <cong.wang@...edance.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <peilin.ye@...edance.com>
> ---
> Hi David,
>
>> I just merged main into next. Please fix up this patch and re-send. In
>> the future, just ask for a merge in cases like this.
>
> Ah, I see; thanks!
> Peilin Ye
>
> Change since v2:
> - re-rebased on iproute2-next (David)
>
> man/man8/tc-skbmod.8 | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> tc/m_skbmod.c | 8 +++++++-
> 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
applied to iproute2-next.
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