[PATCH net-next 0/4] net: factorize flow dissector

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Le vendredi 25 novembre 2011 à 14:02 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit :

> cls_flow is not complete, since it doesnt handle tunnels for example.
> 
> It calls a 'partial flow classifier' to find each needed element, one by
> one.
> (adding tunnel decap would need to perform this several time for each
> packet)
> 
> __skb_get_rxhash() is more tunnel aware, yet some protocols are still
> missing, for example IPPROTO_IPV6.
> 
> Instead of adding logic to both dissectors, we could have a central flow
> dissector, filling a temporary pivot structure with found elements (src
> addr, dst addr, ports, ...), going through tunnels encap if found.
> 
> Then net/sched/cls_flow.c could pick needed elems from this structure to
> compute the hash as specified in tc command :
> (for example : tc filter ...  flow hash keys proto-dst,dst ...)
> 
> (One dissector call per packet for any number of keys in the filter)
> 
> Same for net/sched/sch_sfb.c : Use the pivot structure and compute the
> two hashes (using two hashrnd values)
> 
> And __skb_get_rxhash() could use the same flow dissector, and pick (src
> addr, dst addr, ports) to compute skb->rxhash, and set skb->l4_rxhash if
> "ports" is not null.
> 

Here is a patch serie doing this factorization / cleanup.

[PATCH net-next 1/4] net: introduce skb_flow_dissect()
[PATCH net-next 2/4] net: use skb_flow_dissect() in __skb_get_rxhash()
[PATCH net-next 3/4] cls_flow: use skb_flow_dissect()
[PATCH net-next 4/4] sch_sfb: use skb_flow_dissect()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

cumulative diffstat :
 include/net/flow_keys.h   |   15 +++
 net/core/Makefile         |    2 
 net/core/dev.c            |  124 ++----------------------
 net/core/flow_dissector.c |  130 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 net/ipv4/tcp.c            |    8 -
 net/sched/cls_flow.c      |  180 +++++++++---------------------------
 net/sched/sch_sfb.c       |   17 ++-
 7 files changed, 225 insertions(+), 251 deletions(-)



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