Normally, VXLAN packets will be set to DF( don't frag) in the outter IP
header.
I am trying to understand why fragmentation happens in the first place.

Hemanth Aramadaka via dev <[email protected]> 于2022年3月15日周二 22:38写道:

> Issue:
>
> The src-port for UDP is based on RSS hash in the packet metadata.
> In case of packets coming from VM it will be 5-tuple, if available,
> otherwise just IP addresses.If the VM fragments a large IP packet
> and sends the fragments to ovs, only the first fragment will contain
> the L4 header. Therefore, the first fragment and subsequent fragments
> get different UDP src ports in the outgoing VXLAN header.This can
> lead to fragment re-ordering in the fabric as packet will take
> different paths.
>
> Fix:
>
> Intention of this is to avoid fragment packets taking different paths.
> For example, due to presence of firewalls, fragment packets will take
> different paths and will get dropped.To avoid this we ignore the L4
> header during hash calculation only in the case of fragmented packets.
>
> P.S: There is already a review request raised for the same.
> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2021-January/379395.html.
> Re-iterating
> <https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2021-January/379395.html.Re-iterating>
> the same patch request on the latest master code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hemanth Aramadaka <[email protected]>
> ---
>  lib/flow.c | 10 +++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/flow.c b/lib/flow.c
> index dd523c889..17bd47724 100644
> --- a/lib/flow.c
> +++ b/lib/flow.c
> @@ -2238,7 +2238,7 @@ miniflow_hash_5tuple(const struct miniflow *flow,
> uint32_t basis)
>
>      if (flow) {
>          ovs_be16 dl_type = MINIFLOW_GET_BE16(flow, dl_type);
> -        uint8_t nw_proto;
> +        uint8_t nw_proto,nw_frag;
>
>          if (dl_type == htons(ETH_TYPE_IPV6)) {
>              struct flowmap map = FLOWMAP_EMPTY_INITIALIZER;
> @@ -2260,6 +2260,14 @@ miniflow_hash_5tuple(const struct miniflow *flow,
> uint32_t basis)
>
>          nw_proto = MINIFLOW_GET_U8(flow, nw_proto);
>          hash = hash_add(hash, nw_proto);
> +        /* Skip l4 header fields if IP packet is fragmented since
> +         * only first fragment will carry l4 header.
> +         */
> +        nw_frag = MINIFLOW_GET_U8(flow, nw_frag);
> +        if ((nw_frag)) {
> +            goto out;
> +        }
> +
>          if (nw_proto != IPPROTO_TCP && nw_proto != IPPROTO_UDP
>              && nw_proto != IPPROTO_SCTP && nw_proto != IPPROTO_ICMP
>              && nw_proto != IPPROTO_ICMPV6) {
> --
> 2.25.1
>
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