Simon, I see that you have reviewed these patches. Are you handling this series?
Thanks, Ben. On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 02:35:55PM +0100, John Hurley wrote: > This patchset extends OvS TC and the linux-netdev implementation to > support the offloading of Linux Link Aggregation devices (LAG) and their > slaves. TC blocks are used to provide this offload. Blocks, in TC, group > together a series of qdiscs. If a filter is added to one of these qdiscs > then it applied to all. Similarly, if a packet is matched on one of the > grouped qdiscs then the stats for the entire block are increased. The > basis of the LAG offload is that the LAG master (attached to the OvS > bridge) and slaves that may exist outside of OvS are all added to the same > TC block. OvS can then control the filters and collect the stats on the > slaves via its interaction with the LAG master. > > The TC API is extended within OvS to allow the addition of a block id to > ingress qdisc adds. Block ids are then assigned to each LAG master that is > attached to the OvS bridge. The linux netdev netlink socket is used to > monitor slave devices. If a LAG slave is found whose master is on the bridge > then it is added to the same block as its master. If the underlying slaves > belong to an offloadable device then the Linux LAG device can be offloaded > to hardware. > > John Hurley (6): > tc: allow offloading of block ids > netdev-provider: add class op to get block_id > rtnetlink: extend parser to include kind of master and slave > netdev-linux: indicate if netdev is a LAG master > netdev-linux: assign LAG devs to tc blocks > netdev-linux: monitor and offload LAG slaves to TC > > lib/netdev-bsd.c | 3 +- > lib/netdev-dpdk.c | 3 +- > lib/netdev-dummy.c | 3 +- > lib/netdev-linux.c | 128 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > lib/netdev-provider.h | 4 ++ > lib/netdev-tc-offloads.c | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++------- > lib/netdev-vport.c | 3 +- > lib/netdev.c | 10 ++++ > lib/netdev.h | 1 + > lib/rtnetlink.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++ > lib/rtnetlink.h | 4 ++ > lib/tc.c | 60 +++++++++++++++------- > lib/tc.h | 12 ++--- > 13 files changed, 305 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-) > mode change 100644 => 100755 lib/rtnetlink.h > > -- > 2.7.4 > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
