On 8/6/24 11:44, Dumitru Ceara wrote:
> From: Adrian Moreno <[email protected]>
> 
> Introduce a new table called Sample where per-flow IPFIX configuration
> can be specified.
> Also, reference rows from such table from the ACL table to enable the
> configuration of ACL sampling. If enabled, northd will add a sample
> action to each ACL related logical flow.
> 
> Packets that hit stateful ACLs are sampled in different ways depending
> whether they are initiating a new session or are just forwarded on an
> existing (already allowed) session.  Two new columns ("sample_new" and
> "sample_est") are added to the ACL table to allow for potentially
> different sampling rates for the two cases.
> 
> Note: If an ACL has both sampling enabled and a label associated to it
> then the label value overrides the observation point ID defined in the
> sample configuration.  This is a side effect of the implementation
> (observation point IDs are stored in conntrack in the same part of the
> ct_label where ACL labels are also stored).  The two features
> (sampling and ACL labels) serve however similar purposes so it's not
> expected that they're both enabled together.
> 
> When sampling is enabled on an ACL additional logical flows are created
> for that ACL (one for stateless ACLs and 3 for stateful ACLs) in the ACL
> action stage of the logical pipeline.  These additional flows match on a
> combination of conntrack state values and observation point id values
> (either against a logical register or against the stored ct_label state)
> in order to determine whether the packets hitting the ACLs must be
> sampled or not.  This comes with a slight increase in the number of
> logical flows and in the number of OpenFlow rules.  The number of
> additional flows _does not_ depend on the original ACL match or action.
> 
> New --sample-new and --sample-est optional arguments are added to the
> 'ovn-nbctl acl-add' command to allow configuring these new types of
> sampling for ACLs.
> 
> An example workflow of configuring ACL samples is:
>   # Create Sampling_App mappings for ACL traffic types:
>   ovn-nbctl create Sampling_App name="acl-new-traffic-sampling" \
>                                 id="42"
>   ovn-nbctl create sampling_app name="acl-est-traffic-sampling" \
>                               id="43"
>   # Create two sample collectors, one that samples all packets (c1)
>   # and another one that samples with a probability of 10% (c2):
>   c1=$(ovn-nbctl create Sample_Collector name=c1 \
>        probability=65535 set_id=1)
>   c2=$(ovn-nbctl create Sample_Collector name=c2 \
>        probability=6553 set_id=2)
>   # Create two sample configurations (for new and for established
>   # traffic) and an ingress ACL to allow IP traffic:
>   ovn-nbctl \
>     -- --id=@s1 create sample collector="$c1 $c2" metadata=4301 \
>     -- --id=@s2 create sample collector="$c1 $c2" metadata=4302 \
>     -- --sample-new=@s1 --sample-est=@s2 acl-add ls \
>             from-lport 1 "ip" allow-related
> 
> The config above will generate IPFIX samples with:
> - 8 MSB of observation domain id set to 42 (Sampling_App
>   "acl-new-traffic-sampling" config) and observation point id
>   set to 4301 (Sample s1) for packets that create a new
>   connection
> - 8 MSB of observation domain id set to 43 (Sampling_app
>   "acl-est-traffic-sampling" config) and observation point id
>   set to 4302 (Sample s2) for packets that are part of an already
>   existing connection
> 
> Note: in general, all generated IPFIX sample observation domain IDs are
> built by ovn-controller in the following way:
> The 8 MSB taken from the sample action's obs_domain_id and the last 24
> LSB taken from the Southbound logical datapath tunnel_key (datapath ID).
> 
> Reported-at: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/FDP-305
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Moreno <[email protected]>
> Co-authored-by: Ales Musil <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Ales Musil <[email protected]>
> Co-authored-by: Dumitru Ceara <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Dumitru Ceara <[email protected]>
> ---
> V6:
> - Address Ilya's comments:
>   - make Sample non-root
>   - Add unique ID to Sample_Collector to be stored in the session
>     conntrack information.  Limit the max number of Sample_Collector
>     records to 15 (4 bit).

Just to be sure: Nadia, do you think maximum 15 unique
NB.Sample_Collectors is too restrictive for OVN-kubernets?

Thanks,
Dumitru


> - Remove the Sample.external_ids: with non-root it doesn't really make
>   sense, there's always going to be a direct mapping from a single ACL
>   object to the sample.
> - Remove HAVE_TCPDUMP from system tests.
> - Add fix and test for to-lport ACLs with sampling enabled hit on egress
>   towards routers.
> - Add test with different collectors (multiple probabilities) that share
>   the same set_id.
> - Fixed system test checking nfcapd output files (these can auto
>   rotate).
> V5:
> - rebase
> - address Ilya's comment:
>   - add documentation notes about behavior when mixing ACL labels with
>     ACL sampling.
> V4:
> - added explicit sampling stages
> - reduced set_id max supported value
> - added support for tiered "pass" ACLs
> - improved system test + added tiered ACL system test
> - added Ales as co-author for most of the above
> - Addressed Mark's comment about better error messages in ovn-nbctl
> V3:
> - Addressed Ilya's comment:
>   - Bumped NB schema version.
> V2:
> - Addressed Adrian's comments:
>   - fixed up observation domain id comment in commit log.
>   - store the obs_domain_id in the ct_label as an 8 bit value (add a
>     test).
>   - removed redundant check in build_acl_sample_label_action().
>   - added missing space after ternary ":" operator.
>   - documented limitation for sampling ACLs with action "pass".
>   - documented sample_new behavior for stateless ACLs.
> - Removed unused OVN_CT_SAMPLE_ID_SET_BIT and OVN_CT_SAMPLE_ID_SET.

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