On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Yang, Yi <yi.y.y...@intel.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 04, 2017 at 10:29:46PM +0800, Pravin Shelar wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 9:03 PM, Yi Yang <yi.y.y...@intel.com> wrote:
>> > +int nsh_push(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct nshhdr *pushed_nh)
>> > +{
>> > + struct nshhdr *nh;
>> > + size_t length = nsh_hdr_len(pushed_nh);
>> > + u8 next_proto;
>> > +
>> > + if (skb->mac_len) {
>> > + next_proto = TUN_P_ETHERNET;
>> > + } else {
>> > + next_proto = tun_p_from_eth_p(skb->protocol);
>> > + if (!next_proto)
>> > + return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
>> check for supported protocols can be moved to flow install validation
>> in __ovs_nla_copy_actions().
>>
>> > + }
>> > +
>> > + /* Add the NSH header */
>> > + if (skb_cow_head(skb, length) < 0)
>> > + return -ENOMEM;
>> > +
>> > + skb_push(skb, length);
>> > + nh = (struct nshhdr *)(skb->data);
>> > + memcpy(nh, pushed_nh, length);
>> > + nh->np = next_proto;
>> > +
>> > + skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_NSH);
>> > + skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
>> > + skb_reset_network_header(skb);
>> > + skb_reset_mac_len(skb);
>> > +
>> > + return 0;
>> > +}
>> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nsh_push);
>> > +
>> > +int nsh_pop(struct sk_buff *skb)
>> > +{
>> > + struct nshhdr *nh;
>> > + size_t length;
>> > + __be16 inner_proto;
>> > +
>> > + if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, NSH_BASE_HDR_LEN))
>> > + return -ENOMEM;
>> > + nh = (struct nshhdr *)(skb->data);
>> > + length = nsh_hdr_len(nh);
>> > + inner_proto = tun_p_to_eth_p(nh->np);
>> same as above, this check can be moved to flow install
>> __ovs_nla_copy_actions().
>
> Pravin, these two functions are not only for OVS, you can see it is
> net/nsh/nsh.c, Jiri and Eric mentioned they also could be used by TC.
>
I think it can be easily done by other caller of these function, or
you can refactor the APIs itself.
> I understand you expect some checks should be moved to slow path, but
> for there two cases, we can't remove them into __ovs_nla_copy_actions.
>
It is not just about optimization, but having these check in flow
install allows OVS userspace to probe level of NSH support in
datapath.
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