On 5/24/2018 10:04 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 5:22 AM, Jakub Kicinski
<jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> wrote:
Hi!
This series from John adds bond offload to the nfp driver. Patch 5
exposes the hash type for NETDEV_LAG_TX_TYPE_HASH to make sure nfp
hashing matches that of the software LAG. This may be unnecessarily
conservative, let's see what LAG maintainers think :)
John says:
This patchset sets up the infrastructure and offloads output actions for
when a TC flower rule attempts to egress a packet to a LAG port.
Firstly it adds some of the infrastructure required to the flower app and
to the nfp core. This includes the ability to change the MAC address of a
repr, a function for combining lookup and write to a FW symbol, and the
addition of private data to a repr on a per app basis.
Patch 6 continues by implementing notifiers that track Linux bonds and
communicates to the FW those which enslave reprs, along with the current
state of reprs within the bond.
Patch 7 ensures bonds are synchronised with FW by receiving and acting
upon cmsgs sent to the kernel. These may request that a bond message is
retransmitted when FW can process it, or may request a full sync of the
bonds defined in the kernel.
Patch 8 offloads a flower action when that action requires egressing to a
pre-defined Linux bond.
Does this apply also to non-uplink representors? if yes, what is the use case?
We are looking on supporting uplink lag in sriov switchdev scheme - we refer to
it as "vf lag" -- b/c the netdev and rdma devices seen by the VF are actually
subject to HA and/or LAG - I wasn't sure if/how you limit this series
to uplink reprs
Also, does this patchset support offloading LAG when using vxlan based tunnels?
When using OVS offloading with vxlan, the encap rule that gets offloaded via
tc-flower
has egress port as vxlan device and the decap rule has the in-port as vxlan
device, not
the actual egress port. How are you addressing this issue?
