Hi Ilya,
I think about your suggestion recently. But I'm still not very clear
about the design.
Please see my reply below:
On 3/1/2021 8:48 PM, Ilya Maximets wrote:
On 3/1/21 9:30 AM, Chris Mi wrote:
Hi Simon, Ilya,
Could I know what should we do to make progress for this patch set?
It has been posted in the community for a long time 😁
In general, the way to get your patches reviewed is to review other
patches. It's simply because we still have a huge review backlog
(214 patches right now in patchwork and most of them needs review)
and bugfixes usually has a bit higher priority. By reviewing other
patches you're reducing amount of work for maintainers so they can
get to your patches faster.
OK, I see.
For the series and comments from Eelco:
I didn't read the patches carefully, only a quick glance, but I still
do not understand why we need a separate thread to poll psample events.
Why can't we just allow usual handler threads to do that?
I'm not sure if you are aware of that the psample netlink is different
from the ovs
netlink. Without offload, kernel sends missed packet and sFlow packet to
userspace
using the same netlink 'ovs_packet_family'. So they can use the same
handler thread.
But in order to offload sFlow action, we use psample kernel module to
send sampled
packets from kernel to userspace. The format for ovs netlink message and
psample
netlink messages are different.
From the
architecture perspective it's not a good thing to call ofproto code
from the offload-provider. This introduces lots of complications
and might cause lots of issues in the future.
I'd say that design should look like this:
handler thread ->
dpif_recv() ->
dpif_netlink_recv() ->
netdev_offload_recv() ->
netdev_offload_tc_recv() ->
nl_sock_recv()
In order to use the handler thread, I'm not sure if we should add
psample socket
fd to every handler's epoll_fd. If we should do that, we should consider
how to
differentiate if the event comes from ovs or psample netlink. Maybe we
should
allocate a special port number for psample and assign it to event.data.u32.
Anyway, that's the details. If this is the right direction, I'll think
about it.
Last three calls should be implemented.
The better version of this will be to throw away dpif part from
above call chain and make it:
handler thread ->
netdev_offload_recv() ->
netdev_offload_tc_recv() ->
nl_sock_recv()
If we throw away dpif part, maybe we have to write some duplicate epoll code
for psample only. And we can't block in nl_sock_recv(). Maybe we have to add
psample socket fd to every handler's epoll_fd. So we have to change the dpif
somehow.
I don't know if I understand your suggestion correctly. Or I missed anything
So if you have time, could you please elaborate?
Thanks,
Chris
This way we could avoid touching dpif-netdev and still have psample
offloading for the case where netdev-offload-tc is used from the
userspace datapath.
Above architecture also implies implementation of:
- netdev_offload_recv_wait()
- netdev_offload_recv_purge()
- and the netdev_offload_tc_* counterparts.
Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
Thanks,
Chris
On 2/23/2021 5:08 PM, Roi Dayan wrote:
On 2021-01-27 8:23 AM, Chris Mi wrote:
This patch set adds offload support for sFlow.
Psample is a genetlink channel for packet sampling. TC action act_sample
uses psample to send sampled packets to userspace.
When offloading sample action to TC, userspace creates a unique ID to
map sFlow action and tunnel info and passes this ID to kernel instead
of the sFlow info. psample will send this ID and sampled packet to
userspace. Using the ID, userspace can recover the sFlow info and send
sampled packet to the right sFlow monitoring host.
v2-v1:
- Fix robot errors.
v3-v2:
- Remove Gerrit Change-Id.
- Add patch #9 to fix older kernels build issue.
- Add travis test result.
v4-v3:
- Fix offload issue when sampling rate is 1.
v5-v4:
- Move polling thread from ofproto to netdev-offload-tc.
v6-v5:
- Rebase.
- Add GitHub Actions test result.
v7-v6:
- Remove Gerrit Change-Id.
- Fix "ERROR: Inappropriate spacing around cast"
v8-v7
- Address Eelco Chaudron's comment for patch #11.
v9-v8
- Remove sflow_len from struct dpif_sflow_attr.
- Log a debug message for other userspace actions.
v10-v9
- Address Eelco Chaudron's comments on v9.
v11-v10
- Fix a bracing error.
v12-v11
- Add duplicate sample group id check.
Chris Mi (11):
compat: Add psample and tc sample action defines for older kernels
ovs-kmod-ctl: Load kernel module psample
dpif: Introduce register sFlow upcall callback API
ofproto: Add upcall callback to process sFlow packet
netdev-offload: Introduce register sFlow upcall callback API
netdev-offload-tc: Implement register sFlow upcall callback API
dpif-netlink: Implement register sFlow upcall callback API
netdev-offload-tc: Introduce group ID management API
netdev-offload-tc: Create psample netlink socket
netdev-offload-tc: Add psample receive handler
netdev-offload-tc: Add offload support for sFlow
include/linux/automake.mk | 4 +-
include/linux/psample.h | 58 +++
include/linux/tc_act/tc_sample.h | 25 ++
lib/dpif-netdev.c | 1 +
lib/dpif-netlink.c | 27 ++
lib/dpif-netlink.h | 4 +
lib/dpif-provider.h | 10 +
lib/dpif.c | 8 +
lib/dpif.h | 23 ++
lib/netdev-offload-provider.h | 3 +
lib/netdev-offload-tc.c | 659 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
lib/netdev-offload.c | 30 ++
lib/netdev-offload.h | 4 +
lib/tc.c | 61 ++-
lib/tc.h | 16 +-
ofproto/ofproto-dpif-upcall.c | 42 ++
utilities/ovs-kmod-ctl.in | 14 +
17 files changed, 973 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 include/linux/psample.h
create mode 100644 include/linux/tc_act/tc_sample.h
Hi Simon, Ilya,
Can you help review for this series?
do you have any comments you want us to handle?
Thanks,
Roi
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