RE: [PATCH V7 1/6] qapi/net: Add IPFlowSpec and QMP command for COLO passthrough

["Zhang, Chen" <chen.zhang@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 4, 2021 10:35 PM
> To: Zhang, Chen <chen.zhang@intel.com>
> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>; qemu-dev <qemu-
> devel@nongnu.org>; Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>; Markus
> Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>; Daniel P. Berrangé
> <berrange@redhat.com>; Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>; Li Zhijian
> <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com>; Zhang Chen <zhangckid@gmail.com>; Lukas
> Straub <lukasstraub2@web.de>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 1/6] qapi/net: Add IPFlowSpec and QMP command
> for COLO passthrough
> 
> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 10:54:19AM +0800, Zhang Chen wrote:
> > Since the real user scenario does not need COLO to monitor all traffic.
> > Add colo-passthrough-add and colo-passthrough-del to maintain a COLO
> > network passthrough list. Add IPFlowSpec struct for all QMP commands.
> > Except protocol field is necessary, other fields are optional.
> 
> That last sentence reads awkwardly, and I don't see a protocol field in the
> patch below.

Oh, We move the protocol field to optional by Lukas's comments in V6.
I will remove this comments here.

> 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Zhang Chen <chen.zhang@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  net/net.c     | 10 ++++++++
> >  qapi/net.json | 68
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 78 insertions(+)
> >
> 
> > +++ b/qapi/net.json
> > @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
> >  ##
> >
> >  { 'include': 'common.json' }
> > +{ 'include': 'sockets.json' }
> >
> >  ##
> >  # @set_link:
> > @@ -694,3 +695,70 @@
> >  ##
> >  { 'event': 'FAILOVER_NEGOTIATED',
> >    'data': {'device-id': 'str'} }
> > +
> > +##
> > +# @IPFlowSpec:
> > +#
> > +# IP flow specification.
> > +#
> > +# @protocol: Transport layer protocol like TCP/UDP...
> 
> Why is this open-coded as 'str' instead of an enum?

The original code use enum, but we change it by Dave and Markus's comments.
Please check the history:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-04/msg03919.html

> 
> > +#
> > +# @object-name: Point out the IPflow spec effective range of object,
> > +#               If there is no such part, it means global spec.
> > +#
> > +# @source: Source address and port.
> > +#
> > +# @destination: Destination address and port.
> > +#
> > +# Since: 6.1
> > +##
> > +{ 'struct': 'IPFlowSpec',
> > +  'data': { '*protocol': 'str', '*object-name': 'str',
> > +    '*source': 'InetSocketAddressBase',
> > +    '*destination': 'InetSocketAddressBase' } }
> > +
> > +##
> > +# @colo-passthrough-add:
> > +#
> > +# Add passthrough entry according to user's needs in COLO-compare.
> > +# Source IP/port and destination IP/port both optional, If user just
> > +# input parts of infotmation, it will match all.
> 
> information
> 
> Grammar suggestion:
> 
> The source and destination IP/ports are both optional; if the user only inputs
> part of the information, this will match all traffic.
> 
> except I'm not sure if my rewrite conveys the actual intent.

Looks good to me, It should add the "protocol" to optional too.
Sorry, I'm not a native speaker, I will fix it in next version.

> 
> > +#
> > +# Returns: Nothing on success
> > +#
> > +# Since: 6.1
> > +#
> > +# Example:
> > +#
> > +# -> { "execute": "colo-passthrough-add",
> > +#      "arguments": { "protocol": "tcp", "object-name": "object0",
> > +#      "source": {"host": "192.168.1.1", "port": "1234"},
> > +#      "destination": {"host": "192.168.1.2", "port": "4321"} } }
> > +# <- { "return": {} }
> > +#
> > +##
> > +{ 'command': 'colo-passthrough-add', 'boxed': true,
> > +     'data': 'IPFlowSpec' }
> > +
> > +##
> > +# @colo-passthrough-del:
> > +#
> > +# Delete passthrough entry according to user's needs in COLO-compare.
> > +# Source IP/port and destination IP/port both optional, If user just
> > +# input parts of infotmation, it will match all.
> 
> Same problems as above.

OK.

Thanks
Chen

> 
> > +#
> > +# Returns: Nothing on success
> > +#
> > +# Since: 6.1
> > +#
> > +# Example:
> > +#
> > +# -> { "execute": "colo-passthrough-del",
> > +#      "arguments": { "protocol": "tcp", "object-name": "object0",
> > +#      "source": {"host": "192.168.1.1", "port": "1234"},
> > +#      "destination": {"host": "192.168.1.2", "port": "4321"} } }
> > +# <- { "return": {} }
> > +#
> > +##
> > +{ 'command': 'colo-passthrough-del', 'boxed': true,
> > +     'data': 'IPFlowSpec' }
> > --
> > 2.25.1
> >
> 
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