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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: "Xing, Beilei" <beilei.xing@intel.com>,
	"Zhang, Qi Z" <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, "Guo, Jia" <jia.guo@intel.com>,
	"Guo, Junfeng" <junfeng.guo@intel.com>,
	"Su, Simei" <simei.su@intel.com>,
	"Yigit, Ferruh" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	"arybchenko@solarflare.com" <arybchenko@solarflare.com>,
	"viacheslavo@mellanox.com" <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>,
	"jerinj@marvell.com" <jerinj@marvell.com>,
	"ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com" <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>,
	"orika@mellanox.com" <orika@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/3] ethdev: add new RSS types for IPv6 prefix
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 13:57:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5246418.gzuaxCN7mb@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <039ED4275CED7440929022BC67E7061154858443@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com>

08/07/2020 13:10, Zhang, Qi Z:
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > 08/07/2020 11:45, Zhang, Qi Z:
> > > On 2020/7/7 19:06, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > > 16/06/2020 10:16, Junfeng Guo:
> > > >> This patch defines new RSS offload types for IPv6 prefix with 32,
> > > >> 48,
> > > >> 64 bits of both SRC and DST IPv6 address.
> > > >>
> > > >> Signed-off-by: Junfeng Guo <junfeng.guo@intel.com>
> > > >> ---
> > > >>   lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h | 51
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >>   1 file changed, 51 insertions(+)
> > > >>
> > > >> diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> > > >> b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h index 631b146bd..5a7ba36d8 100644
> > > >> --- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> > > >> +++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> > > >> @@ -538,6 +538,9 @@ struct rte_eth_rss_conf {
> > > >>   #define ETH_RSS_L4_DST_ONLY        (1ULL << 60)
> > > >>   #define ETH_RSS_L2_SRC_ONLY        (1ULL << 59)
> > > >>   #define ETH_RSS_L2_DST_ONLY        (1ULL << 58)
> > > >> +#define ETH_RSS_L3_PRE32           (1ULL << 57)
> > > >> +#define ETH_RSS_L3_PRE48           (1ULL << 56)
> > > >> +#define ETH_RSS_L3_PRE64           (1ULL << 55)
> > > >
> > > > PRE32, 48 and 64 are not obvious.
> > > > Why is it needed?
> > >
> > > there is typical usage for NAT64, which use 32 bit prefix for IPv6
> > > addresses, in this case flows over IPv4 and IPv6 will result in the
> > > same hash value, as well as 48, 64, which also have some corresponding
> > > use cases,
> > > > At least, please add comments for the values of this API.
> > >
> > > sure, we will add more comments.
> > > > Do we want to continue with the RTE_ prefix missing?
> > > > Can't we add the prefix for the new values?
> > 
> > I think you misunderstood this question. I am asking to change the name
> > ETH_RSS_L3_PRE32 to RTE_ETH_RSS_L3_PRE32
> 
> OK, we are going change all the ETH_RSS_xxx to RTE_ETH_RSS_xxx, or just the new values?
> the first option looks make sense to me.

You cannot break compatibility with the existing values,
but you can provide an alias to preserve compatibility.

> > > 32, 48, 64 are typical usage, and consider suffix pair we may add
> > > later, it will cost 6 bits so far we still have 27 bit left,  so it
> > > looks like will not be a problem in following couple releases.
> > 
> > Having some space left is not a reason to waste it :) If I understand well,
> > there is no standard for this API.
> > You are assigning some bits to some usage.
> > I don't find it generic and flexible enough.
> 
> Actually IPv6 address prefix is in spec, please check below RFC.
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6052#page-5

Quoting the RFC:
"
   the prefix shall be either the "Well-Known Prefix"
   or a "Network-Specific Prefix" unique to the organization
   deploying the address translators.
   The prefixes can only have one of the following lengths:
   32, 40, 48, 56, 64, or 96.
   (The Well-Known Prefix is 96 bits long, and can only be used
   in the last form of the table.)
"

So 40 and 56 are missing.

> So probably we are not wasting bits here, since this is a typical usage
> that DPDK can provide.
> Of cause more description is needed in the code here.
> 
> > If you want to limit the size of the match, we should have a generic syntax to
> > choose how many bits of the IPv6 address are taken into account for RSS. Or
> > maybe an IPv6 mask.
> 
> Yes, I believe at some moment, a more generic solution is mandatory,
> And I think that will not work if we stick on the 64 bits, new API need to be introduced and old one should be abandoned 
> 
> > 
> > > but anyway use 64 bits to represent RSS inputset can't meet the coming
> > > complex RSS usage, we may need to figure out some new APIs and
> > abandon
> > > the old one.
> > > A stacked protocol layer with bit field selector in each layer is
> > > under consideration, hope we can contribute some RFC at some moment.
> > > also feel free let us know your thought.
> > 
> > My thought is to discuss how to fit this need in future and avoid adding few
> > bits of temporary workaround.
> > API definition is serious and we must avoid temporary half solutions.




  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-08 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-12  8:07 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/ice: add RSS support " Junfeng Guo
2020-06-16  8:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/3] " Junfeng Guo
2020-06-16  8:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/3] ethdev: add new RSS types " Junfeng Guo
2020-07-06 11:59     ` Zhang, Qi Z
2020-07-07 10:20     ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-07-07 11:06     ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-08  9:45       ` Zhang, Qi Z
2020-07-08  9:57         ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-08 11:10           ` Zhang, Qi Z
2020-07-08 11:57             ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-07-08 12:05               ` Zhang, Qi Z
2020-07-08 12:26                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-08 12:37                   ` Zhang, Qi Z
2020-07-08 14:29                     ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-09  0:33                       ` Zhang, Qi Z
2020-06-16  8:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/3] app/testpmd: support extended RSS offload types Junfeng Guo
2020-06-16  8:16   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] net/ice: add RSS support for IPv6 prefix Junfeng Guo
2020-07-08  4:36   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] " Junfeng Guo
2020-07-08  4:36     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] ethdev: add new RSS types " Junfeng Guo
2020-07-08  4:36     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/3] app/testpmd: support extended RSS offload types Junfeng Guo
2020-07-08  4:36     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] net/ice: add RSS support for IPv6 prefix Junfeng Guo
2020-07-08  7:33     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/3] " Junfeng Guo
2020-07-08  7:33       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/3] ethdev: add new RSS types " Junfeng Guo
2020-07-08  7:33       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/3] app/testpmd: support extended RSS offload types Junfeng Guo
2020-07-08  7:33       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/3] net/ice: add RSS support for IPv6 prefix Junfeng Guo
2020-07-08  8:24       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/3] " Zhang, Qi Z

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