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From: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Kumar Sanghvi <kumaras@chelsio.com>,
	Felix Marti <felix@chelsio.com>,
	Nirranjan Kirubaharan <nirranjan@chelsio.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 0/2] ethdev: Enhancements to flow director filter
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 19:20:53 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160111135051.GA5674@scalar.blr.asicdesigners.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1450448999.git.rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>

Hi All,

On Wednesday, December 12/23/15, 2015 at 18:11:19 +0530, Rahul Lakkireddy wrote:
> This RFC series of patches attempt to extend the flow director filter to
> add support for Chelsio T5 hardware filtering capabilities.
> 
> Chelsio T5 supports carrying out filtering in hardware which supports 3
> actions to carry out on a packet which hit a filter viz.
> 
> 1. Action Pass - Packets hitting a filter rule can be directed to a
>    particular RXQ.
> 
> 2. Action Drop - Packets hitting a filter rule are dropped in h/w.
> 
> 3. Action Switch - Packets hitting a filter rule can be switched in h/w
>    from one port to another, without involvement of host.  Also, the
>    action Switch also supports rewrite of src-mac/dst-mac headers as
>    well as rewrite of vlan headers.  It also supports rewrite of IP
>    headers and thereby, supports NAT (Network Address Translation)
>    in h/w.
> 
> Also, each filter rule can optionally support specifying a mask value
> i.e. it's possible to create a filter rule for an entire subnet of IP
> addresses or a range of tcp/udp ports, etc.
> 
> Patch 1 does the following:
> - Adds an additional flow rte_eth_pkt_filter_flow which encapsulates
>   ingress ports, l2 payload, vlan and ntuples.
> - Adds an additional mask for the flow to allow range of values to be
>   matched.
> - Adds an ability to set both filters with masks (Maskfull) and
>   without masks (Maskless).  Also allow prioritizing one of these
>   filter types over the other when a packet matches several types.
> - Adds a new behavior 'switch'.
> - Adds behavior arguments that can be passed when a particular behavior
>   is taken.  For ex: in case of action 'switch', pass additional 4-tuple
>   to allow rewriting src/dst ip and port addresses to support NAT'ing.
> 
> Patch 2 shows testpmd command line example to support packet filter
> flow.
> 
> The patch series has been compile tested on all x86 gcc targets and the
> current fdir filter supported drivers seem to return appropriate error
> codes when this new flow type and the new action are not supported and
> hence are not affected.
> 
> Posting this series mainly for discussion on API change. Once this is
> agreeable then, I will post the cxgbe PMD changes to use the new API.
> 
> ---
> v2:
> 1. Added ttl to rte_eth_ipv4_flow and tc, flow_label, next_header,
>    and hop_limit to rte_eth_ipv6_flow.
> 
> 2. Added new field type to rte_eth_pkt_filter_flow to differentiate
>    between maskfull and maskless filter types.
> 
> 3. Added new field prio to rte_eth_pkt_filter_flow to allow setting
>    priority over maskfull or maskless when packet matches multiple
>    filter types.
> 
> 4. Added new behavior sub op RTE_FDIR_BEHAVIOR_SUB_OP_SWAP to allow
>    swapping fields in matched flows. For ex, useful when swapping mac
>    addresses in hardware before switching.
> 
> 5. Updated the testpmd example to reflect the above new changes.
> 
> 6. Dropped Patch 3 since the ABI announcement has already been merged.
> 
> Rahul Lakkireddy (2):
>   ethdev: add packet filter flow and new behavior switch to fdir
>   testpmd: add an example to show packet filter flow
> 
>  app/test-pmd/cmdline.c          | 528 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  lib/librte_ether/rte_eth_ctrl.h | 127 +++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 646 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.5.3
> 

Any comments on this RFC series?  If the overall approach is fine then,
I'll re-submit it as a PATCH series along with the CXGBE PMD driver
changes.

Thanks,
Rahul

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-11 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-10 14:01 [dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/3] " Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-12-10 14:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 1/3] ethdev: add packet filter flow and new behavior switch to fdir Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-12-10 15:46   ` Chilikin, Andrey
2015-12-11  7:08     ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-12-10 14:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 2/3] testpmd: add an example to show packet filter flow Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-12-10 14:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 3/3] doc: announce ABI change for filtering support Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-12-15  8:40   ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-12-15  8:55     ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-15 13:51       ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-12-15 13:57         ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-23 12:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 0/2] ethdev: Enhancements to flow director filter Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-12-23 12:41   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 1/2] ethdev: add packet filter flow and new behavior switch to fdir Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-01-13  1:12     ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-01-13  8:49       ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-01-13 13:16         ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-01-14  8:48           ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-01-14 13:17             ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-01-15  1:30               ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-01-15  7:11                 ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2015-12-23 12:41   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 2/2] testpmd: add an example to show packet filter flow Rahul Lakkireddy
2016-01-11 13:50   ` Rahul Lakkireddy [this message]

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