On 5 Jan 2022, at 3:12, Chris Mi wrote:

> Hi Eelco,
>
> Version 19 mainly  fixes a bug that psample_sock is destroyed when last 
> bridge is deleted.
> And it also addresses some of the minor comments in v18. I think there is no 
> use
> to address all of them because if we need to change the dpif-offload design, 
> maybe
> some of them will be irrelevant.

Agreed, let's wait for Ilya's (and others') feedback.


> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> On 2022-01-04 6:56 PM, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> Looked at the patch and the new version does not try to work around my 
>> concerns on v18, i.e., the ones where we need Ilya’s input.
>> So I could not add any more ACKs; however, I did talk to Ilya offline, and 
>> he will get back to this after his 2.17 release work.
>>
>> See:
>>
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/patch/[email protected]/
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/patch/[email protected]/
>>
>>
>> Also, I did notice you did not respond to all the v18 questions on patch 5.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> Eelco
>>
>>
>> On 28 Dec 2021, at 7:38, 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.
>>> v13-v12
>>> - Remove the psample poll thread from netdev-offload-tc and reuse
>>>    ofproto handler thread according to Ilya's new desgin.
>>> - Add dpif-offload-provider layer according to Eli's suggestion.
>>> v14-v13
>>> - Fix a robot error.
>>> v15-v14
>>> - Address Eelco Chaudron's comments on v14.
>>> v16-v15
>>> - Address Eelco Chaudron's comments on v15.
>>> - Add two test cases.
>>> v17-v16
>>> - Address Eelco Chaudron's comments on v16.
>>> - Move struct dpif_offload_api from struct dpif_class to struct dpif.
>>> v18-v17
>>> - Rename dpif_offload_api to dpif_offload_class.
>>> - Add init and destroy callbacks in dpif_offload_class. They are called
>>>    when registering dpif_offload_class.
>>> v19-18
>>> - Fix a bug that psample_sock is destroyed when last bridge is deleted.
>>>
>>> Chris Mi (8):
>>>    compat: Add psample and tc sample action defines for older kernels
>>>    ovs-kmod-ctl: Load kernel module psample
>>>    dpif-offload-provider: Introduce dpif-offload-provider layer
>>>    netdev-offload-tc: Introduce group ID management API
>>>    dpif-offload-netlink: Implement dpif-offload-provider API
>>>    ofproto: Introduce API to process sFlow offload packet
>>>    netdev-offload-tc: Add offload support for sFlow
>>>    system-offloads-traffic.at: Add sFlow offload test cases
>>>
>>>   NEWS                             |   1 +
>>>   include/linux/automake.mk        |   4 +-
>>>   include/linux/psample.h          |  62 ++++
>>>   include/linux/tc_act/tc_sample.h |  25 ++
>>>   lib/automake.mk                  |   4 +
>>>   lib/dpif-netdev.c                |   8 +-
>>>   lib/dpif-netlink.c               |   4 +-
>>>   lib/dpif-offload-netdev.c        |  43 +++
>>>   lib/dpif-offload-netlink.c       | 228 +++++++++++++++
>>>   lib/dpif-offload-provider.h      |  93 ++++++
>>>   lib/dpif-offload.c               | 200 +++++++++++++
>>>   lib/dpif-provider.h              |  10 +-
>>>   lib/dpif.c                       |  17 +-
>>>   lib/netdev-offload-tc.c          | 466 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>>   lib/netdev-offload.h             |   2 +
>>>   lib/tc.c                         |  61 +++-
>>>   lib/tc.h                         |  16 +-
>>>   ofproto/ofproto-dpif-upcall.c    |  73 +++++
>>>   tests/system-offloads-traffic.at | 101 +++++++
>>>   utilities/ovs-kmod-ctl.in        |  14 +
>>>   20 files changed, 1400 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
>>>   create mode 100644 include/linux/psample.h
>>>   create mode 100644 include/linux/tc_act/tc_sample.h
>>>   create mode 100644 lib/dpif-offload-netdev.c
>>>   create mode 100644 lib/dpif-offload-netlink.c
>>>   create mode 100644 lib/dpif-offload-provider.h
>>>   create mode 100644 lib/dpif-offload.c
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> 2.30.2

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