On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 01:05:41PM +0200, Adrian Moreno wrote:
> Add support for a new action: psample.
>
> This action accepts a u32 group id and a variable-length cookie and uses
> the psample multicast group to make the packet available for
> observability.
>
> The maximum length of the user-defined cookie is set to 16, same as
> tc_cookie, to discourage using cookies that will not be offloadable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Moreno <[email protected]>
...
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
> b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
> index efc82c318fa2..07086759556b 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
> @@ -914,6 +914,31 @@ struct check_pkt_len_arg {
> };
> #endif
>
> +#define OVS_PSAMPLE_COOKIE_MAX_SIZE 16
> +/**
> + * enum ovs_pample_attr - Attributes for %OVS_ACTION_ATTR_PSAMPLE
nit: s/ovs_pample_attr/ovs_psample_attr/
> + * action.
> + *
> + * @OVS_PSAMPLE_ATTR_GROUP: 32-bit number to identify the source of the
> + * sample.
> + * @OVS_PSAMPLE_ATTR_COOKIE: An optional variable-length binary cookie that
> + * contains user-defined metadata. The maximum length is
> + * OVS_PSAMPLE_COOKIE_MAX_SIZE bytes.
> + *
> + * Sends the packet to the psample multicast group with the specified group
> and
> + * cookie. It is possible to combine this action with the
> + * %OVS_ACTION_ATTR_TRUNC action to limit the size of the sample.
> + */
> +enum ovs_psample_attr {
> + OVS_PSAMPLE_ATTR_GROUP = 1, /* u32 number. */
> + OVS_PSAMPLE_ATTR_COOKIE, /* Optional, user specified cookie. */
> +
> + /* private: */
> + __OVS_PSAMPLE_ATTR_MAX
> +};
...
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