From: Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>
To: Shiri Kuzin <shirik@nvidia.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>,
NBU-Contact-Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>,
Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] ethdev: introduce GENEVE header extension item
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 07:59:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MN2PR12MB42860D5ECF69BD6C78CECBF6D6200@MN2PR12MB4286.namprd12.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR12MB2597118FA6A2A8CEAD5B1306AA5E0@BYAPR12MB2597.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>
Hi
PSB,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Shiri Kuzin
>
> The Geneve tunneling protocol is designed to allow
> the user to specify some data context on the packet.
> The header extension options is the mean intended
> to present the user data. These ones are implemented
> in TLV (Type-Length-Value) fashion, in order to
> support these Geneve protocol feature we will
> introduce the new item "rte_flow_item_geneve_option"
>
> The support for new item will be added to testpmd
> and include values and masks for the fields:
> - class
> - type
> - data length
> - data itself
>
> The usage example:
>
> "flow create 0 ingress pattern ipv4 / udp /
> geneve / geneve_opt class is 102 type is 80
> type mask ff data is 10002 data mask is
> 7fffffff / end actions drop / end "
>
Can we have in the same flow number of such items?
> New item will be added to testpmd to support
> raw encap/decap action.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shiri Kuzin <shirik@nvidia.com>
> ---
> lib/librte_ethdev/rte_flow.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_flow.h b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_flow.h
> index da8bfa5..d04ee7c 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_flow.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_flow.h
> @@ -347,6 +347,13 @@ enum rte_flow_item_type {
> RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_GENEVE,
>
> /**
> + * Matches a GENEVE Variable Length Option.
> + *
> + * See struct rte_flow_item_geneve_option.
> + */
> + RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_GENEVE_OPTION,
> +
> + /**
> * Matches a VXLAN-GPE header.
> *
> * See struct rte_flow_item_vxlan_gpe.
> @@ -1097,6 +1104,24 @@ struct rte_flow_item_geneve {
> #endif
>
> /**
> + * RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_GENEVE_OPTION.
> + *
> + * Matches a GENEVE Variable Length Option
> + */
> +struct rte_flow_item_geneve_option {
> + rte_be16_t option_class;
> + uint8_t option_type;
> +#if RTE_BYTE_ORDER == RTE_LITTLE_ENDIAN
> + uint8_t length:5;
> + uint8_t rsvd0:3;
> +#else
> + uint8_t rsvd0:3;
> + uint8_t length:5;
> +#endif
> + uint8_t data[];
I think it will be better to use pointer and not empty array.
Other option is to always take the max possible data size 32.
> +};
> +
> +/**
> * RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_VXLAN_GPE (draft-ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe-05).
> *
> * Matches a VXLAN-GPE header.
> --
> 1.8.3.1
Best,
Ori
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-15 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-16 10:15 Shiri Kuzin
2020-08-16 17:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-08-17 6:36 ` Shiri Kuzin
2020-09-15 7:59 ` Ori Kam [this message]
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