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    net/sched: allow flower to match tunnel options · 0a6e7778
    Pieter Jansen van Vuuren authored
    
    
    Allow matching on options in Geneve tunnel headers.
    This makes use of existing tunnel metadata support.
    
    The options can be described in the form
    CLASS:TYPE:DATA/CLASS_MASK:TYPE_MASK:DATA_MASK, where CLASS is
    represented as a 16bit hexadecimal value, TYPE as an 8bit
    hexadecimal value and DATA as a variable length hexadecimal value.
    
    e.g.
     # ip link add name geneve0 type geneve dstport 0 external
     # tc qdisc add dev geneve0 ingress
     # tc filter add dev geneve0 protocol ip parent ffff: \
         flower \
           enc_src_ip 10.0.99.192 \
           enc_dst_ip 10.0.99.193 \
           enc_key_id 11 \
           geneve_opts 0102:80:1122334421314151/ffff:ff:ffffffffffffffff \
           ip_proto udp \
           action mirred egress redirect dev eth1
    
    This patch adds support for matching Geneve options in the order
    supplied by the user. This leads to an efficient implementation in
    the software datapath (and in our opinion hardware datapaths that
    offload this feature). It is also compatible with Geneve options
    matching provided by the Open vSwitch kernel datapath which is
    relevant here as the Flower classifier may be used as a mechanism
    to program flows into hardware as a form of Open vSwitch datapath
    offload (sometimes referred to as OVS-TC). The netlink
    Kernel/Userspace API may be extended, for example by adding a flag,
    if other matching options are desired, for example matching given
    options in any order. This would require an implementation in the
    TC software datapath. And be done in a way that drivers that
    facilitate offload of the Flower classifier can reject or accept
    such flows based on hardware datapath capabilities.
    
    This approach was discussed and agreed on at Netconf 2017 in Seoul.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPieter Jansen van Vuuren <pieter.jansenvanvuuren@netronome.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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