The mlxsw driver currently implements three types of RIFs. VLAN and FID
RIFs for L3 interfaces on top of VLAN-aware and VLAN-unaware bridges
(respectively) and Subport RIFs for all other L3 interfaces.
All the RIF types follow a common configuration procedure, which only
differs in the type-specific bits. The patch exploits this fact and
consolidates the common code paths, thereby simplifying the code and
making it more extensible.
This work also prepares the driver for use with future ASICs, where the
range of the Subport RIFs will be extended and their configuration
modified accordingly. By merely implementing a new RIF operations and
selecting it during initialization, the same driver could be re-used.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The device supports three types of FIDs. 802.1Q and 802.1D FIDs for
VLAN-aware and VLAN-unaware bridges (respectively) and rFIDs to
transport packets to the router block.
The different users (e.g., bridge, router, ACLs) of the FIDs
infrastructure need not know about the internal FIDs implementation and
can therefore interact with it using a restricted set of exported
functions.
By encapsulating the entire FID logic and hiding it from the rest of the
driver we get a code base that it much simpler and easier to work with
and extend.
For example, in the current Spectrum ASIC only 802.1D FIDs can be
assigned a VNI, but future ASICs will also support 802.1Q FIDs. With
this patch in place, support for future ASICs can be easily added by
implementing a new FID operations according to their capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
All RIF types are associated with a virtual router (VR), so determine VR
first when creating a RIF.
That way, we can more easily integrate the common RIF core in the
following patches.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If a packet ingress the router but can't be assigned an ingress RIF,
it's dropped.
Therefore, in the case of RIF configured on top of a bridge, it makes
sense to start flooding broadcast packets to the router only after the
RIF was created.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now that all the information to create a RIF is contained within the RIF
struct itself, we can also simplify the destruction logic.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
All the information necessary for the configuration of RIFs can now be
found in the RIF struct itself, so reduce the arguments list.
This gets us one step closer to the common RIF core.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently, when a Subport RIF is configured, the LAG status and VLAN of
the underlying port are read from the port itself. This is problematic,
as we would like to have common code to configure all types of RIFs,
which aren't necessarily bound to a port.
Instead, embed the RIF in a struct specific to the Subport type, which
contains all the necessary information.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In the following patches the RIF's configuration function is going to
expect a RIF struct with all the necessary information.
Therefore, allocate the RIF just before it's configured to the device.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The following patches are going to re-arrange the FID and RIF code, so
that when the RIF is configured to the device based on the information
present in the RIF struct (which points to a FID).
For this reason, move the FID allocation to just before the RIF
configuration.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As explained in the cover letter, since the introduction of the bridge
offload in the mlxsw driver, information related to the offloaded bridge
and bridge ports was stored in the individual port struct,
mlxsw_sp_port.
This lead to a bloated struct storing both physical properties of the
port (e.g., autoneg status) as well as logical properties of an upper
bridge port (e.g., learning, mrouter indication). While this might work
well for simple devices, it proved to be hard to extend when stacked
devices were taken into account and more advanced use-cases (e.g., IGMP
snooping) considered.
This patch removes the excess information from the above struct and
instead stores it in more appropriate structs that represent the bridge
port, the bridge itself and a VLAN configured on the bridge port.
The membership of a port in a bridge is denoted using the Port-VLAN
struct, which points to the bridge port and also member in the bridge
VLAN group of the VLAN it represents. This allows us to completely
remove the vPort abstraction and consolidate many of the code paths
relating to VLAN-aware and unaware bridges.
Note that the FID / vFID code is currently duplicated, but this will
soon go away when the common FID core will be introduced.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Up until now we used to create FIDs upon the creation of VLAN uppers on
top of the VLAN-aware bridge. This was done so that in case a router
interface (RIF) was configured on top of the bridge, the FID would
already be there.
Instead, simplify the code and only create the FID upon RIF creation.
This is an intermediary step towards the introduction of the common FID
core, in which this code would be completely removed.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We're going to get rid of vPorts completely later in the patchset, but
the router code is self-contained, so it's a good candidate to start the
transition with.
Convert all the functions that expects to operate on a vPort to operate
on a Port-VLAN instead.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When a vPort is destroyed, it leaves the FID it's currently mapped to
(if any) and drops the reference. The FID's leave function expects to
get the vPort as its argument, but this will have to change when the
vPort model is retired.
Change the function signature to expect a Port-VLAN struct instead and
patch the call sites accordingly.
The code introduced in this patch will be removed later in the patchset,
but this intermediary step is required in order to ease the code review.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We currently transition the port to "Virtual mode" upon the creation of
its first VLAN upper, as we need to classify incoming packets to a FID
using {Port, VID} and not only the VID.
However, it's more appropriate to transition the port to this mode when
the {Port, VID} are actually mapped to a FID. Either during the
enslavement of the VLAN upper to a VLAN-unaware bridge or the
configuration of a router port.
Do this change now in preparation for the introduction of the FID core,
where this operation will be encapsulated.
To prevent regressions, this patch also explicitly configures an OVS
slave to "Virtual mode". Otherwise, a packet that didn't hit an ACL rule
could be classified to an existing FID based on a global VID-to-FID
mapping, thus not incurring a FID mis-classification, which would
otherwise trap the packet to the CPU to be processed by the OVS daemon.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In new firmware versions, when configuring a {Port, VID} as a router
interface, the driver is responsible for enabling the STP filter and
disabling learning. Otherwise, packets are discarded.
This change doesn't break existing firmware versions, but is required
for newer firmware versions.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
During rif counter freeing the counter index can be invalid. Add check
of validity before freeing the counter.
Fixes: e0c0afd8aa ("mlxsw: spectrum: Support for counters on router interfaces")
Signed-off-by: Arkadi Sharshevsky <arkadis@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The router interfaces (RIFs) array is currently initialized together
with the general router configuration. However, in a follow-up patchset
we're going to introduce a common RIF core that will require us to
initialize more RIF constructs, so move the RIF initialization to its
own function.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The FIB notification block logically belongs inside the router specific
struct, so move it there.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The router interfaces (RIFs) array is of no interest to code outside the
routing realm, so declare it inside the router specific struct instead
of the chip-wide one.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some attributes in the global chip struct are only relevant for bridge
operation, so encapsulate them in their own struct that isn't exposed to
non-bridge code.
This will also help us later, when we add more bridge-specific
attributes.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In a similar fashion to previous patch, the router structure
('mlxsw_sp_router') doesn't need to be accessible to anyone, but the
router code located at spectrum_router.c
Make this apparent and reduce its scope by defining it there.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When a netdev is enslaved to a VRF master, its router interface (RIF)
needs to be destroyed (if exists) and a new one created using the
corresponding virtual router (VR).
>From the driver's perspective, the above is equivalent to an inetaddr
event sent for this netdev. Therefore, when a port netdev (or its
uppers) are enslaved to a VRF master, call the same function that
would've been called had a NETDEV_UP was sent for this netdev in the
inetaddr notification chain.
This patch also fixes a bug when a LAG netdev with an existing RIF is
enslaved to a VRF. Before this patch, each LAG port would drop the
reference on the RIF, but would re-join the same one (in the wrong VR)
soon after. With this patch, the corresponding RIF is first destroyed
and a new one is created using the correct VR.
Fixes: 7179eb5acd ("mlxsw: spectrum_router: Add support for VRFs")
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>From now on, a port can become a slave of OVS master. All vlans
are enabled, STP state is set to "forwarding". It is up to the OVS
userspace daemon to setup the flows either in kernel or in HW using TC
flower offload.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add rif helper function to access the rif index and rif devices ifindex.
This functions will be used by dpipe in order to dump the rif table.
Signed-off-by: Arkadi Sharshevsky <arkadis@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add support for counter allocation on router interfaces. The allocation
depends on the counter state of relevant table. In case the counting is
disabled or no counters left the counter index will be set as invalid.
Also a counter pool for router allocation is added.
Signed-off-by: Arakdi Sharshevsky <arkadis@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently the return allocated index and err value are multiplexed.
This patch changes the API to decouple the ret value from the allocated
index.
Signed-off-by: Arkadi Sharshevsky <arkadis@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We currently hard code the maximum number of ports in the driver, but
this may change in future devices, so query it from the firmware
instead.
Fallback to a maximum of 64 ports in case this number can't be queried.
This should only happen in SwitchX-2 for which this number is correct.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Instead of hard coding the number of LPM trees in the driver, query it
from the firmware, as it may change in future devices.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently the struct representing router interface "mlxsw_sp_rif"
is reffered as "r" in various places in the driver. Furthermore it
contains a member which specify the index which is called "rif".
This patch change "r" to "rif" and "rif" to "rif_index".
Signed-off-by: Arkadi Sharshevsky <arkadis@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now that port netdevs can be enslaved to a VRF master we need to make
sure the device's routing tables won't be flushed upon the insertion of
a l3mdev rule.
Note that we assume the notified l3mdev rule is a simple rule as used by
the VRF master. We don't check for the presence of other selectors such
as 'iif' and 'oif'.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In a similar fashion to the previous patch, allow bridges and VLAN
devices on top of bridges to be enslaved to a VRF master device.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Allow port netdevs, LAG and VLAN devices stacked on top of these to be
enslaved to a VRF master device.
Upon enslavement, create a router interface (RIF) for the enslaved
netdev and associate it with a virtual router (VR) based on the VRF's
table ID.
If a RIF already exists for the netdev (f.e., due to the existence of an
IP address), then it's deleted and a new one is created with the
appropriate VR binding.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We usually destroy the netdev's router interface (RIF) when the last IP
address is removed from it.
However, we shouldn't do that if it's enslaved to an L3 master device.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When a router interface (RIF) is created due to a netdev being enslaved
to a VRF master, then it should be associated with the appropriate
virtual router (VR) and not the default one.
If netdev is a VRF slave, lookup the VR based on the VRF's table ID.
Otherwise default to the MAIN table.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In commit c3852ef7f2 ("ipv4: fib: Replay events when registering FIB
notifier") we dumped the FIB tables and replayed the events to the
passed notification block.
However, we merely sent a RULE_ADD notification in case custom rules
were in use. As explained in previous patches, this approach won't work
anymore. Instead, we should notify the caller about all the FIB rules
and let it act accordingly.
Upon registration to the FIB notification chain, replay a RULE_ADD
notification for each programmed FIB rule, custom or not. The integrity
of the dump is ensured by the mechanism introduced in the above
mentioned commit.
Prevent regressions by making sure current listeners correctly sanitize
the notified rules.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When the abort mechanism is invoked it binds the first virtual router
(VR) to an LPM tree and inserts a default route to direct packets to the
CPU.
With VRFs, we can have router interfaces (RIFs) bound to multiple VRs,
so we need to make sure packets are trapped from all VRs and not just
the first one.
Upon abort invocation, bind all active VRs to the same LPM tree and
insert a default route in each.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Up until now we implicitly associated all the router interfaces (RIFs)
with the first virtual router (VR). This must be changed in order to
enable VRF offload. Otherwise, a packet received via a VRF slave would
do a FIB lookup in the same table used by other VRFs.
Instead, bind the RIF to a VR according to the table where FIB lookup
should be performed for packets received via the RIF.
Currently, we only care about the MAIN and LOCAL tables (which we squash
together).
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
A virtual router (VR) is an entity within the device to which routing
tables and interfaces can be bound to. It can be used to implement VRFs.
In the initial implementation we associated the VR with a specific
protocol (e.g., IPv4) and an LPM tree. However, this isn't really
accurate, as the same VR can be used for both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic, by
binding a different LPM tree to a {VR, Proto} pair.
This patch aims to restructure the VR code according to the above logic,
so that VRs are more accurately represented by the driver's data
structures. The main motivation behind this change is to prepare the
driver for VRF offload.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When looking for a new LPM tree we should always consider all the unused
trees. It doesn't matter if the new tree is required due to changes in
currently used prefixes inside an existing routing table or because a
route was inserted into an empty table.
Both cases are functionally identical and therefore should be treated
the same.
When looking for a new LPM tree, consider all unused trees and don't
reserve trees for specific cases.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The inetaddr notification block is currently implemented in the main
driver file, but this isn't really appropriate, as it mainly creates and
destroys router interfaces (RIFs) which belong with the rest of the
router code.
This will become even more apparent later on when we'll need to bind
these RIFs to virtual routers according to the VRF's table.
Structure the driver better and prevent unnecessary function exports by
moving the RIF related code with the rest of the router code.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Allow 'unreachable', 'blackhole' and 'prohibit' route types to be
programmed into the device by sending any packet hitting them to the
CPU.
This is needed so that users will be able to program a default route
into the VRF's table, thereby preventing lookup from leaking to other
tables.
Audit the code paths to make sure we don't rely on the presence of a
nexthop netdev, as it doesn't exist for above mentioned route types.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When the structure of the LPM tree changes (f.e., due to the addition of
a new prefix), we unbind the old tree and then bind the new one. This
may result in temporary packet loss.
Instead, overwrite the old binding with the new one.
Fixes: 6b75c4807d ("mlxsw: spectrum_router: Add virtual router management")
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Upon the reception of an ENTRY_REPLACE notification, resolve the FIB
node corresponding to the prefix and length and insert the new route
before the first matching entry.
Since the notification also signals the deletion of the replaced route,
delete it from the driver's cache.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When a new route is appended, it's placed after existing routes sharing
the same parameters (prefix, length, table ID, TOS and priority).
While the device supports only one route with the same prefix and length
in a single table, it's important to correctly place the appended route
in the driver's cache, as when a route is deleted the next one is
programmed into the device.
Following the reception of an ENTRY_APPEND notification, resolve the
FIB node corresponding to the prefix and length and correctly place the
new entry in its entry list.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In the device, routes are indexed in a routing table based on the prefix
and its length. This is in contrast to the kernel's FIB where several
FIB aliases can exist with these parameters being identical. In such
cases, the routes will be sorted by table ID (LOCAL first, then MAIN),
TOS and finally priority (metric).
During lookup, these routes will be evaluated in order. In case the
packet's TOS field is non-zero and a FIB alias with a matching TOS is
found, then it's selected. Otherwise, the lookup defaults to the route
with TOS 0 (if it exists). However, if the requested scope is narrower
than the one found, then the lookup continues.
To best reflect the kernel's datapath we should take the above into
account. Given a prefix and its length, the reflected route will always
be the first one in the FIB alias list. However, if the route has a
non-zero TOS then its action will be converted to trap instead of
forward, since we currently don't support TOS-based routing. If this
turns out to be a real issue, we can add support for that using
policy-based switching.
The route's scope can be effectively ignored as any packet being routed
by the device would've been looked-up using the widest scope (UNIVERSE).
To achieve that we need to do two changes. Firstly, we need to create
another struct (FIB node) that will hold the list of FIB entries sharing
the same prefix and length. This struct will be hashed using these two
parameters.
Secondly, we need to change the route reflection to match the above
logic, so that the first FIB entry in the list will be programmed into
the device while the rest will remain in the driver's cache in case of
subsequent changes.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The kernel resolves the nexthops for a given route using
FIB_LOOKUP_IGNORE_LINKSTATE which means a notification can be sent for a
route with one of its nexthops being LINKDOWN.
In case IGNORE_ROUTES_WITH_LINKDOWN is set for the nexthop netdev, then
we shouldn't reflect the nexthop to the device's table.
Once the nexthop netdev's carrier goes up we'll be notified using NH_ADD
and reflect it to the device.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When the last IP address is removed from a netdev, its RIF is deleted.
However, if user didn't first remove neighbours and nexthops using this
interface, then they would still be present in the device's tables.
Therefore, whenever a RIF is deleted, make sure all the neighbours and
nexthops (adjacency entries) using it are removed from the relevant
tables as well.
The action associated with any route using this RIF would be refreshed,
most likely to trap. If the kernel decides to remove the route (f.e.,
because all the nexthops are now DEAD), then an event would be sent,
causing the route to be removed from the device.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When a packet hits a multipath route in the device's routing table, a
hash is computed over its headers, which is then used to select the
appropriate nexthop from the device's adjacency table.
There are situations in which the kernel removes a nexthop from a
multipath route (e.g., no carrier) and the device should do the same.
Upon the reception of NH_{ADD,DEL} events, add or remove a nexthop from
the device's adjacency table and refresh all the routes using the
nexthop group. If all the nexthops of a multipath route are invalid,
then any packet hitting the route would be trapped to the CPU for
forwarding.
If all the nexthops are DEAD, then the kernel would remove the route
entirely. On the other hand, if all the nexthops are merely LINKDOWN,
then the kernel would keep the route and forward any incoming packet
using a different route.
While the last case might sound like a problem, it's expected that a
routing daemon running in user space would remove such a route from the
FIB as it's dumped with the DEAD flag set.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The device can have one of three actions associated with a route:
1) Remote - packets continue to the adjacency table
2) Local - packets continue to the neighbour table
3) Trap - packets continue to the CPU
The first two actions can also trap packets to the CPU, but they do so
using a different trap ID, which has a lower traffic class and less
allotted bandwidth.
We currently use the third action for both RTN_{LOCAL,BROADCAST} routes
and RTN_UNICAST routes not pointing to the switch ports.
However, packets that merely need to be forwarded by the switch are
likely not control packets and can be therefore scheduled towards the
CPU using a lower traffic class.
Achieve the above by assigning the third action only to local and
broadcast routes and have any other route use either of the first two
actions, based on whether the route is gatewayed or not.
This will also allow us to refresh routes using the local action and
have them trap packets when their RIF is no longer valid following a
NH_DEL event.
One side effect of this patch is that we no longer give special
treatment to multipath routes using both switch and non-switch ports
towards their nexthops. If at least one of the nexthops can be resolved,
then the device will forward the packets instead of trapping them.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
