[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] datapath: Add pre_tunnel support

Lori Jakab lojakab at cisco.com
Wed Jan 23 17:22:44 UTC 2013


On 01/23/13 16:01, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
> 
> On Jan 22, 2013, at 20:36 , ext Kyle Mestery wrote:
> 
>> Add support to the tunneling code for a "pre_tunnel"
>> function. This allows the tunneling code to perform
>> operations on the packet before the outer IP header is
>> added.
>>
>> A tunneling protocol such as LISP may require this, as it needs
>> to remove the MAC header before applying the LISP header.
>>
> 
> It seems to me that the same can be achieved with your own version of
> ovs_tnl_send() that first removes the MAC header and then calls ovs_tnl_send().
> Your vport_ops table already has the hook for this, so there is no overhead in
> doing this.

Indeed, we missed this. Will use the ovs_tnl_send hook in the next version.

Thanks for reviewing!

-Lori

> 
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Kyle Mestery <kmestery at cisco.com>
>> ---
>> datapath/tunnel.c       | 5 +++++
>> datapath/tunnel.h       | 7 +++++++
>> datapath/vport-capwap.c | 1 +
>> datapath/vport-gre.c    | 2 ++
>> datapath/vport-vxlan.c  | 1 +
>> 5 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/datapath/tunnel.c b/datapath/tunnel.c
>> index d03b708..f1dd8d3 100644
>> --- a/datapath/tunnel.c
>> +++ b/datapath/tunnel.c
>> @@ -988,6 +988,11 @@ int ovs_tnl_send(struct vport *vport, struct sk_buff *skb)
>> 		if (unlikely(vlan_deaccel_tag(skb)))
>> 			goto next;
>>
>> +		/* Pre tunnel header work done by tunneling layer. */
>> +		if (tnl_vport->tnl_ops->pre_tunnel)
>> +			skb = tnl_vport->tnl_ops->pre_tunnel(vport, mutable,
>> +							     skb);
>> +
>> 		skb_push(skb, tunnel_hlen);
>> 		skb_reset_network_header(skb);
>> 		skb_set_transport_header(skb, sizeof(struct iphdr));
>> diff --git a/datapath/tunnel.h b/datapath/tunnel.h
>> index b7de7a9..12e7f19 100644
>> --- a/datapath/tunnel.h
>> +++ b/datapath/tunnel.h
>> @@ -135,6 +135,13 @@ struct tnl_ops {
>> 	int (*hdr_len)(const struct tnl_mutable_config *,
>> 		       const struct ovs_key_ipv4_tunnel *);
>> 	/*
>> +	 * Some tunnels may need to perform actions on the packet before
>> +	 * appending the outer IP header of the tunneled packet.
>> +	 */
>> +	struct sk_buff *(*pre_tunnel)(const struct vport *,
>> +				      const struct tnl_mutable_config *,
>> +				      struct sk_buff *);
>> +	/*
>> 	 * Returns a linked list of SKBs with tunnel headers (multiple
>> 	 * packets may be generated in the event of fragmentation).  Space
>> 	 * will have already been allocated at the start of the packet equal
>> diff --git a/datapath/vport-capwap.c b/datapath/vport-capwap.c
>> index f45d349..9055b1d 100644
>> --- a/datapath/vport-capwap.c
>> +++ b/datapath/vport-capwap.c
>> @@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ static const struct tnl_ops capwap_tnl_ops = {
>> 	.tunnel_type	= TNL_T_PROTO_CAPWAP,
>> 	.ipproto	= IPPROTO_UDP,
>> 	.hdr_len	= capwap_hdr_len,
>> +	.pre_tunnel	= NULL,
>> 	.build_header	= capwap_build_header,
>> };
>>
>> diff --git a/datapath/vport-gre.c b/datapath/vport-gre.c
>> index 8ce8a35..80f805a 100644
>> --- a/datapath/vport-gre.c
>> +++ b/datapath/vport-gre.c
>> @@ -422,6 +422,7 @@ static const struct tnl_ops gre_tnl_ops = {
>> 	.tunnel_type	= TNL_T_PROTO_GRE,
>> 	.ipproto	= IPPROTO_GRE,
>> 	.hdr_len	= gre_hdr_len,
>> +	.pre_tunnel	= NULL,
>> 	.build_header	= gre_build_header,
>> };
>>
>> @@ -439,6 +440,7 @@ static const struct tnl_ops gre64_tnl_ops = {
>> 	.tunnel_type	= TNL_T_PROTO_GRE64,
>> 	.ipproto	= IPPROTO_GRE,
>> 	.hdr_len	= gre_hdr_len,
>> +	.pre_tunnel	= NULL,
>> 	.build_header	= gre_build_header,
>> };
>>
>> diff --git a/datapath/vport-vxlan.c b/datapath/vport-vxlan.c
>> index f72b95f..4922486 100644
>> --- a/datapath/vport-vxlan.c
>> +++ b/datapath/vport-vxlan.c
>> @@ -329,6 +329,7 @@ static const struct tnl_ops ovs_vxlan_tnl_ops = {
>> 	.tunnel_type	= TNL_T_PROTO_VXLAN,
>> 	.ipproto	= IPPROTO_UDP,
>> 	.hdr_len	= vxlan_hdr_len,
>> +	.pre_tunnel	= NULL,
>> 	.build_header	= vxlan_build_header,
>> };
>>
>> -- 
>> 1.7.11.7
>>
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