Hi Chris,

Just a quick update, I did see your responses to v14 and I also noticed you 
send out a v15. I planned to review it this week, but due to some other 
unforeseen stuff, I have to move it to next week (if nothing more is going to 
mess up my plan ;)

Cheers,

Eelco


On 15 Sep 2021, at 14:43, Chris Mi wrote:

> This patch set adds offload support for sFlow.
>
> Psample is a genetlink channel for packet sampling. TC action act_sample
> uses psample to send sampled packets to userspace.
>
> When offloading sample action to TC, userspace creates a unique ID to
> map sFlow action and tunnel info and passes this ID to kernel instead
> of the sFlow info. psample will send this ID and sampled packet to
> userspace. Using the ID, userspace can recover the sFlow info and send
> sampled packet to the right sFlow monitoring host.
>
> v2-v1:
> - Fix robot errors.
> v3-v2:
> - Remove Gerrit Change-Id.
> - Add patch #9 to fix older kernels build issue.
> - Add travis test result.
> v4-v3:
> - Fix offload issue when sampling rate is 1.
> v5-v4:
> - Move polling thread from ofproto to netdev-offload-tc.
> v6-v5:
> - Rebase.
> - Add GitHub Actions test result.
> v7-v6:
> - Remove Gerrit Change-Id.
> - Fix "ERROR: Inappropriate spacing around cast"
> v8-v7
> - Address Eelco Chaudron's comment for patch #11.
> v9-v8
> - Remove sflow_len from struct dpif_sflow_attr.
> - Log a debug message for other userspace actions.
> v10-v9
> - Address Eelco Chaudron's comments on v9.
> v11-v10
> - Fix a bracing error.
> v12-v11
> - Add duplicate sample group id check.
> v13-v12
> - Remove the psample poll thread from netdev-offload-tc and reuse
>   ofproto handler thread according to Ilya's new desgin.
> - Add dpif-offload-provider layer according to Eli's suggestion.
> v14-v13
> - Fix a robot error.
> v15-v14
> - Address Eelco Chaudron's comments on v14.
>
> Chris Mi (7):
>   compat: Add psample and tc sample action defines for older kernels
>   ovs-kmod-ctl: Load kernel module psample
>   dpif-offload-provider: Introduce dpif-offload-provider layer
>   netdev-offload-tc: Introduce group ID management API
>   dpif-offload-netlink: Implement dpif-offload-provider API
>   ofproto: Introduce API to process sFlow offload packet
>   netdev-offload-tc: Add offload support for sFlow
>
>  NEWS                             |   1 +
>  include/linux/automake.mk        |   4 +-
>  include/linux/psample.h          |  62 +++++
>  include/linux/tc_act/tc_sample.h |  25 ++
>  lib/automake.mk                  |   3 +
>  lib/dpif-netdev.c                |   1 +
>  lib/dpif-netlink.c               |   2 +
>  lib/dpif-offload-netlink.c       | 208 ++++++++++++++
>  lib/dpif-offload-provider.h      |  75 +++++
>  lib/dpif-offload.c               |  43 +++
>  lib/dpif-provider.h              |   8 +-
>  lib/dpif.c                       |  10 +
>  lib/netdev-offload-tc.c          | 459 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  lib/netdev-offload.h             |   1 +
>  lib/tc.c                         |  61 +++-
>  lib/tc.h                         |  16 +-
>  ofproto/ofproto-dpif-upcall.c    |  63 +++++
>  utilities/ovs-kmod-ctl.in        |  14 +
>  18 files changed, 1030 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/psample.h
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/tc_act/tc_sample.h
>  create mode 100644 lib/dpif-offload-netlink.c
>  create mode 100644 lib/dpif-offload-provider.h
>  create mode 100644 lib/dpif-offload.c
>
> -- 
> 2.27.0

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