Re: [NET_SCHED 00/04]: External SFQ classifiers/flow classifier

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Corey Hickey wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> These patches add support for external classifiers to SFQ and add a
>> new "flow" classifier, which can do hashing based on user-specified
>> keys or deterministic mapping of keys to classes. Additionally there
>> is a patch to make the SFQ queues visisble as classes to verify that
>> the hash is indeed doing something useful and a patch to consifiy
>> struct tcf_ext_map, which I had queued in the same tree.
> 
> Excellent! I'm glad this is applied. I'm having trouble figuring out how
> it works, though. As a test, I'm trying to set up SFQ equivalent to
> ESFQ's "hash dst". Here's what I do, and this is what I get:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # ./tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: sfq
> # ./tc filter add dev eth0 parent 1: flow hash keys dst
> RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
> We have an error talking to the kernel
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I've tried a few different keys with the same results. I don't know what
> I'm doing wrong, or even where to start figuring it out. Can you point
> me in the right direction?


You're missing protocol, handle etc. Try something like this:

tc filter add dev eth0 protocol ip pref 1 parent 1: handle 1 \ 

         flow hash keys dst divisor 1024