On 17-01-14 10:22 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:

.. create an accept action with cookie 0xA:0xa0a0a0a0a0a0a0
sudo $TC actions add action ok index 1 cookie 0xA 0xa0a0a0a0a0a0a0

2x 64bit values? Why can't this have variable length, according to what
user needs:


You can intepret it however you wish. It is 128 bits. You can make it
2x64, 4x32, 8x16, 16x8


sudo $TC actions add action ok index 1 cookie a0
sudo $TC actions add action ok index 1 cookie a01122
sudo $TC actions add action ok index 1 cookie a01122334455
sudo $TC actions add action ok index 1 cookie a01122334455aabbccddeeff


Sure you can do that too..
I will add add 16 8b fields to the union.



.. dump all gact actions..
sudo $TC -s actions ls action gact

        action order 0: gact action pass
         random type none pass val 0
         index 1 ref 2 bind 1 installed 1221 sec used 27 sec
        Action statistics:
        Sent 373248 bytes 5056 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0)
        backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
         cookie(0000000a:00000000:a0a0a0a0:00a0a0a0)

Input is 2x64 and dump is 4x32? That is confusing. With my suggested
example, this would be:

         cookie a0
         cookie a01122
         cookie a01122334455
         cookie a01122334455aabbccddeeff


Your suggestion is more sensible for a user space cli tool like tc.
I will add a uchar cku8[16] field and make changes to iproute2.

struct tc_action_ops;

+union act_cookie {
+       u16 ck16[8];
+       u32 ck32[4];
+       u64 ck64[2];

Since this should be never interpreted by kernel, I don't understand why
this union is needed. Why just don't pass a char array?


programmatic usability.

Also, whatever format this is, could we make is shared with cls cookie?



The structure could be shared (and because it is in pkt_cls.h
that makes it easier). But the TLVs are domain specific. We need another
one for classifiers.

+};
+
struct tc_action {
        const struct tc_action_ops      *ops;
        __u32                           type; /* for backward 
compat(TCA_OLD_COMPAT) */
@@ -41,6 +47,7 @@ struct tc_action {
        struct rcu_head                 tcfa_rcu;
        struct gnet_stats_basic_cpu __percpu *cpu_bstats;
        struct gnet_stats_queue __percpu *cpu_qstats;
+       union act_cookie        *ck;
};
#define tcf_head        common.tcfa_head
#define tcf_index       common.tcfa_index
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/pkt_cls.h b/include/uapi/linux/pkt_cls.h
index 1e5e1dd..6379af3 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/pkt_cls.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/pkt_cls.h
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/pkt_sched.h>

+union u_act_cookie {
+       __u16 ck16[8];
+       __u32 ck32[4];
+       __u64 ck64[2];
+};

Again, the same struct? I don't understand why twice.

Just old habits.
user vs kernel api? Standard action approach one says
__u32 other says u32; hanging off the user variant to kernel
didnt feel right.

cheers,
jamal

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