[ovs-dev] [PATCH net] gso: do GSO for local skb with size bigger than MTU

[Jesse Gross]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Fan Du <fengyuleidian0615 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 于 2015年01月09日 03:55, Jesse Gross 写道:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:39 AM, Fan Du <fengyuleidian0615 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 于 2015年01月08日 04:52, Jesse Gross 写道:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My understanding is:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> controller sets the forwarding rules into kernel datapath, any flow
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> matching
>>>>>> with the rules are threw to controller by upcall. Once the rule
>>>>>> decision
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> made
>>>>>> by controller, then, this flow packet is pushed down to datapath to be
>>>>>> forwarded
>>>>>> again according to the new rule.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So I'm not sure whether pushing the over-MTU-sized packet or pushing
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> forged ICMP
>>>>>> without encapsulation to controller is required by current ovs
>>>>>> implementation. By doing
>>>>>> so, such over-MTU-sized packet is treated as a event for the
>>>>>> controller
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> be take
>>>>>> care of.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If flows are implementing routing (again, they are doing things like
>>>> decrementing the TTL) then it is necessary for them to also handle
>>>> this situation using some potentially new primitives (like a size
>>>> check). Otherwise you end up with issues like the ones that I
>>>> mentioned above like needing to forge addresses because you don't know
>>>> what the correct ones are.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for explaining, Jesse!
>>>
>>> btw, I don't get it about "to forge addresses", building ICMP message
>>> with Guest packet doesn't require to forge address when not encapsulating
>>> ICMP message with outer headers.
>>
>>
>> Your patch has things like this (for the inner IP header):
>>
>> +                               new_ip->saddr = orig_ip->daddr;
>> +                               new_ip->daddr = orig_ip->saddr;
>>
>> These addresses are owned by the endpoints, not the host generating
>> generating the ICMP message, so I would consider that to be forging
>> addresses.
>>
>>> If the flows aren't doing things to
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> implement routing, then you really have a flat L2 network and you
>>>> shouldn't be doing this type of behavior at all as I described in the
>>>> original plan.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For flows implementing routing scenario:
>>> First of all, over-MTU-sized packet could only be detected once the flow
>>> as been consulted(each port could implement a 'check' hook to do this),
>>> and just before send to the actual port.
>>>
>>> Then pushing the over-MTU-sized packet back to controller, it's the
>>> controller
>>> who will will decide whether to build ICMP message, or whatever routing
>>> behaviour
>>> it may take. And sent it back with the port information. This ICMP
>>> message
>>> will
>>> travel back to Guest.
>>>
>>> Why does the flow has to use primitive like a "check size"? "check size"
>>> will only take effect after do_output. I'm not very clear with this
>>> approach.
>>
>>
>> Checking the size obviously needs to be an action that would take
>> place before outputting in order for it to have any effect. Attaching
>> a check to a port does not fit in very well with the other primitives
>> of OVS, so I think an action is the obvious place to put it.
>
>
> If flow is defined as:
>
>         CHECK_SIZE -> OUTPUT
>
> Then traversing actions at CHECK_SIZE needs to find the exactly OUTPUT port,
> thus get its underlay encapsulation method as well as valid route for
> physical
> NIC MTU, with those information can calculation whether GSOed packets
> exceeds physical MTU. This is feasible anyway at the first look. After this,
> it's the controller responsibility to handle such event.
>
> If the CHECK_SIZE returns positive(over-MTU-sized packets show up), then
> call
> output_userspace to push this packet upper wards.
>
> I'm not sure this vague idea is the expected behaviour as required by "L3
> processing".

Yes, I think that's the right path.