There is currently a gap in drop visibility in the openvswitch module. This series tries to improve this by adding a new drop reason subsystem for OVS.
Apart from adding a new drop reasson subsystem and some common drop reasons, this series takes Eric's preliminary work [1] on adding an explicit drop action and integrates it into the same subsystem. This series also adds some selftests and so it requires [2] to be applied first. A limitation of this series is that it does not report upcall errors. The reason is that there could be many sources of upcall drops and the most common one, which is the netlink buffer overflow, cannot be reported via kfree_skb() because the skb is freed in the netlink layer (see [3]). Therefore, using a reason for the rare events and not the common one would be even more misleading. I'd propose we add (in a follow up patch) a tracepoint to better report upcall errors. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/T/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/T/ [3] commit 1100248a5c5c ("openvswitch: Fix double reporting of drops in dropwatch") Adrian Moreno (6): net: openvswitch: add datapath flow drop reason net: openvswitch: add meter drop reason net: openvswitch: add misc error drop reasons selftests: openvswitch: support key masks selftests: openvswitch: add drop reason testcase selftests: openvswitch: add explicit drop testcase Eric Garver (1): net: openvswitch: add explicit drop action include/net/dropreason.h | 6 + include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h | 2 + net/openvswitch/actions.c | 40 ++++-- net/openvswitch/conntrack.c | 3 +- net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 16 +++ net/openvswitch/drop.h | 33 +++++ net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c | 8 +- .../selftests/net/openvswitch/openvswitch.sh | 92 +++++++++++++- .../selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py | 115 ++++++++++++------ 9 files changed, 267 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) create mode 100644 net/openvswitch/drop.h -- 2.41.0 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
