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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	jiri@resnulli.us, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jhs@mojatatu.com,
	jesse@nicira.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v3] tc: introduce OpenFlow classifier
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:26:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150413082600.GA16323@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150413010342.GA1672@Alexeis-MBP.westell.com>

On 04/12/15 at 06:03pm, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 08:36:18PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> > 
> > It's easy to parameterize what flow dissector does and share code.
> 
> yes. Though I wouldn't pessimize ixgbe rx path even by single
> cycle to accommodate openflow spec. As far as I understand the
> skb_flow_dissect() job from driver point of view is to figure
> out header length for copybreak, which includes parsing encaps,
> whereas openflow stops at outer header. Even with this difference,
> it surely can be parameterized. Would be great to share if it
> doesn't cost rx anything.

A flow dissector that only extracts what's needed would benefit
everyone. I guess static keys could help here as the flow field
selection is definitely a slow path operation.

Even OVS could benefit from this eventually, it would just need
to do a full extract before the key is sent to user space.

Also, the logic to generate the wildcard mask and match on it
should be generalized as well.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-13  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-09 12:58 [patch net-next v3] tc: introduce OpenFlow classifier Jiri Pirko
2015-04-09 13:00 ` [patch iproute2 v3] tc: add support for " Jiri Pirko
2015-04-09 21:34 ` [patch net-next v3] tc: introduce " David Miller
2015-04-10  9:12   ` Jiri Pirko
2015-04-10  9:30     ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-04-10 11:46       ` Jiri Pirko
2015-04-10 13:48         ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-04-10 10:03     ` Thomas Graf
2015-04-10 12:23     ` David Miller
2015-04-10 12:45       ` Jiri Pirko
2015-04-11 16:12         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-12  7:53           ` Jiri Pirko
2015-04-12 23:44             ` David Miller
2015-04-13  0:12               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-13  0:36                 ` David Miller
2015-04-13  1:03                   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-13  8:26                     ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2015-04-13 14:34                       ` Jiri Pirko

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