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authorJakub Kicinski <[email protected]>2020-11-06 11:28:54 -0800
committerJakub Kicinski <[email protected]>2020-11-06 11:28:55 -0800
commit3b4202a4706d8da5cd0243050ed2e51708b2802f (patch)
treeb6f714b793edbff865355a705b9b546c63b321e6 /include/uapi/linux
parentc9448e828d113cd7eafe77c414127e877ca88b20 (diff)
parent21584e6a92bd2a85411793c0da3d48ab327e9b72 (diff)
Merge branch 'nexthop-add-support-for-nexthop-objects-offload'
Ido Schimmel says: ==================== nexthop: Add support for nexthop objects offload This patch set adds support for nexthop objects offload with a dummy implementation over netdevsim. mlxsw support will be added later. The general idea is very similar to route offload in that notifications are sent whenever nexthop objects are changed. A listener can veto the change and the error will be communicated to user space with extack. To keep listeners as simple as possible, they not only receive notifications for the nexthop object that is changed, but also for all the other objects affected by this change. For example, when a single nexthop is replaced, a replace notification is sent for the single nexthop, but also for all the nexthop groups this nexthop is member in. This relieves listeners from the need to track such dependencies. To simplify things further for listeners, the notification info does not contain the raw nexthop data structures (e.g., 'struct nexthop'), but less complex data structures into which the raw data structures are parsed into. Tested with a new selftest over netdevsim and with fib_nexthops.sh: Tests passed: 164 Tests failed: 0 Patch set overview: Patches #1-#4 introduce the aforementioned data structures and convert existing listeners (i.e., the VXLAN driver) to use them. Patches #5-#6 add a new RTNH_F_TRAP flag and the ability to set it and RTNH_F_OFFLOAD on nexthops. This flag is used by netdevsim for testing purposes and will also be used by mlxsw. These flags are consistent with the existing RTM_F_OFFLOAD and RTM_F_TRAP flags. Patches #7-#14 gradually add the new nexthop notifications. Patches #15-#18 add a dummy implementation for nexthop offload over netdevsim and a selftest to exercise both good and bad flows. Changes since RFC [1]: Patch #1: s/is_encap/has_encap/ Patch #3: Add a blank line in __nh_notifier_single_info_init() Patch #5: Reword commit message Patch #6: s/nexthop_hw_flags_set/nexthop_set_hw_flags/ Patch #7: Reword commit message Patch #11: Allocate extack on the stack Follow-up patch sets: selftests: forwarding: Add nexthop objects tests mlxsw: Preparations for nexthop objects support - part 1/2 mlxsw: Preparations for nexthop objects support - part 2/2 mlxsw: Add support for nexthop objects mlxsw: Add support for blackhole nexthops mlxsw: Update adjacency index more efficiently [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/ ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
index d1325ffb0060..2ffbef5da6c1 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h
@@ -396,11 +396,13 @@ struct rtnexthop {
#define RTNH_F_DEAD 1 /* Nexthop is dead (used by multipath) */
#define RTNH_F_PERVASIVE 2 /* Do recursive gateway lookup */
#define RTNH_F_ONLINK 4 /* Gateway is forced on link */
-#define RTNH_F_OFFLOAD 8 /* offloaded route */
+#define RTNH_F_OFFLOAD 8 /* Nexthop is offloaded */
#define RTNH_F_LINKDOWN 16 /* carrier-down on nexthop */
#define RTNH_F_UNRESOLVED 32 /* The entry is unresolved (ipmr) */
+#define RTNH_F_TRAP 64 /* Nexthop is trapping packets */
-#define RTNH_COMPARE_MASK (RTNH_F_DEAD | RTNH_F_LINKDOWN | RTNH_F_OFFLOAD)
+#define RTNH_COMPARE_MASK (RTNH_F_DEAD | RTNH_F_LINKDOWN | \
+ RTNH_F_OFFLOAD | RTNH_F_TRAP)
/* Macros to handle hexthops */