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authorTonghao Zhang2019-11-13 23:04:49 +0800
committerDavid S. Miller2019-11-14 17:29:46 -0800
commitbd1903b7c4596ba6f7677d0dfefd05ba5876707d (patch)
tree008af7077dea54d88e74b7d88c82733c7d54b983 /include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
parent839554b76e9fd07c73b255f1777ddfce6e801ea4 (diff)
net: openvswitch: add hash info to upcall
When using the kernel datapath, the upcall don't include skb hash info relatived. That will introduce some problem, because the hash of skb is important in kernel stack. For example, VXLAN module uses it to select UDP src port. The tx queue selection may also use the hash in stack. Hash is computed in different ways. Hash is random for a TCP socket, and hash may be computed in hardware, or software stack. Recalculation hash is not easy. Hash of TCP socket is computed: tcp_v4_connect -> sk_set_txhash (is random) __tcp_transmit_skb -> skb_set_hash_from_sk There will be one upcall, without information of skb hash, to ovs-vswitchd, for the first packet of a TCP session. The rest packets will be processed in Open vSwitch modules, hash kept. If this tcp session is forward to VXLAN module, then the UDP src port of first tcp packet is different from rest packets. TCP packets may come from the host or dockers, to Open vSwitch. To fix it, we store the hash info to upcall, and restore hash when packets sent back. +---------------+ +-------------------------+ | Docker/VMs | | ovs-vswitchd | +----+----------+ +-+--------------------+--+ | ^ | | | | | | upcall v restore packet hash (not recalculate) | +-+--------------------+--+ | tap netdev | | vxlan module +---------------> +--> Open vSwitch ko +--> or internal type | | +-------------------------+ Reported-at: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2019-October/364062.html Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
index 1887a451c388..a87b44cd5590 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/openvswitch.h
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ enum ovs_packet_cmd {
* @OVS_PACKET_ATTR_LEN: Packet size before truncation.
* %OVS_PACKET_ATTR_USERSPACE action specify the Maximum received fragment
* size.
+ * @OVS_PACKET_ATTR_HASH: Packet hash info (e.g. hash, sw_hash and l4_hash in skb).
*
* These attributes follow the &struct ovs_header within the Generic Netlink
* payload for %OVS_PACKET_* commands.
@@ -190,7 +191,8 @@ enum ovs_packet_attr {
OVS_PACKET_ATTR_PROBE, /* Packet operation is a feature probe,
error logging should be suppressed. */
OVS_PACKET_ATTR_MRU, /* Maximum received IP fragment size. */
- OVS_PACKET_ATTR_LEN, /* Packet size before truncation. */
+ OVS_PACKET_ATTR_LEN, /* Packet size before truncation. */
+ OVS_PACKET_ATTR_HASH, /* Packet hash. */
__OVS_PACKET_ATTR_MAX
};