[ovs-dev] [PATCH V2 14/19] netdev-offload-dpdk-flow: Support offload of output action

Eli Britstein elibr at mellanox.com
Mon Dec 2 08:41:48 UTC 2019


Signed-off-by: Eli Britstein <elibr at mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Oz Shlomo <ozsh at mellanox.com>
---
 Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst   |  8 ++--
 NEWS                           |  1 +
 lib/netdev-offload-dpdk-flow.c | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 3 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst b/Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst
index 766a7950c..de779d78f 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst
+++ b/Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst
@@ -370,8 +370,10 @@ The flow hardware offload is disabled by default and can be enabled by::
 
     $ ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . other_config:hw-offload=true
 
-So far only partial flow offload is implemented. Moreover, it only works
-with PMD drivers have the rte_flow action "MARK + RSS" support.
+Matches and actions are programmed into HW to achieve full offload of
+the flow. If not all actions are supported, fallback to partial flow
+offload (offloading matches only). Moreover, it only works with PMD
+drivers that have the relevant rte_flow actions support.
 
 The validated NICs are:
 
@@ -380,7 +382,7 @@ The validated NICs are:
 
 Supported protocols for hardware offload are:
 - L2: Ethernet, VLAN
-- L3: IPv4, IPv6
+- L3: IPv4
 - L4: TCP, UDP, SCTP, ICMP
 
 Further Reading
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 222280b1a..33882d2af 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Post-v2.12.0
        releases.
      * OVS validated with DPDK 18.11.5, due to the inclusion of a fix for
        CVE-2019-14818, this DPDK version is strongly recommended to be used.
+     * Add hardware offload support for output actions (experimental).
 
 v2.12.0 - 03 Sep 2019
 ---------------------
diff --git a/lib/netdev-offload-dpdk-flow.c b/lib/netdev-offload-dpdk-flow.c
index b03ce2c41..b633bc129 100644
--- a/lib/netdev-offload-dpdk-flow.c
+++ b/lib/netdev-offload-dpdk-flow.c
@@ -274,6 +274,28 @@ ds_put_flow_action(struct ds *s, const struct rte_flow_action *actions)
         } else {
             ds_put_cstr(s, "  RSS = null\n");
         }
+    } else if (actions->type == RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_COUNT) {
+        const struct rte_flow_action_count *count = actions->conf;
+
+        ds_put_cstr(s, "rte flow count action:\n");
+        if (count) {
+            ds_put_format(s,
+                          "  Count: shared=%d, id=%d\n",
+                          count->shared, count->id);
+        } else {
+            ds_put_cstr(s, "  Count = null\n");
+        }
+    } else if (actions->type == RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_PORT_ID) {
+        const struct rte_flow_action_port_id *port_id = actions->conf;
+
+        ds_put_cstr(s, "rte flow port-id action:\n");
+        if (port_id) {
+            ds_put_format(s,
+                          "  Port-id: original=%d, id=%d\n",
+                          port_id->original, port_id->id);
+        } else {
+            ds_put_cstr(s, "  Port-id = null\n");
+        }
     } else {
         ds_put_format(s, "unknown rte flow action (%d)\n", actions->type);
     }
@@ -531,19 +553,80 @@ netdev_dpdk_flow_patterns_add(struct flow_patterns *patterns,
     return 0;
 }
 
+static void
+netdev_dpdk_flow_add_count_action(struct flow_actions *actions)
+{
+    struct rte_flow_action_count *count = xzalloc(sizeof *count);
+
+    count->shared = 0;
+    /* Each flow has a single count action, so no need of id */
+    count->id = 0;
+    add_flow_action(actions, RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_COUNT, count);
+}
+
+static int
+netdev_dpdk_flow_add_port_id_action(struct flow_actions *actions,
+                                    struct netdev *outdev)
+{
+    struct rte_flow_action_port_id *port_id = xzalloc(sizeof *port_id);
+    int outdev_id;
+
+    outdev_id = netdev_dpdk_get_port_id(outdev);
+    if (outdev_id < 0) {
+        return -1;
+    }
+    port_id->id = outdev_id;
+    add_flow_action(actions, RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_PORT_ID, port_id);
+    return 0;
+}
+
+static int
+netdev_dpdk_flow_add_output_action(struct flow_actions *actions,
+                                   const struct nlattr *nla,
+                                   struct offload_info *info)
+{
+    struct netdev *outdev;
+    odp_port_t port;
+    int ret = 0;
+
+    port = nl_attr_get_odp_port(nla);
+    outdev = netdev_ports_get(port, info->dpif_class);
+    if (outdev == NULL) {
+        VLOG_DBG_RL(&error_rl,
+                    "Cannot find netdev for odp port %d", port);
+        return -1;
+    }
+    if (netdev_dpdk_flow_add_port_id_action(actions, outdev)) {
+        VLOG_DBG_RL(&error_rl,
+                    "Output to %s cannot be offloaded",
+                    netdev_get_name(outdev));
+        ret = -1;
+    }
+    netdev_close(outdev);
+    return ret;
+}
+
 int
 netdev_dpdk_flow_actions_add(struct flow_actions *actions,
                              struct nlattr *nl_actions,
                              size_t nl_actions_len,
-                             struct offload_info *info OVS_UNUSED)
+                             struct offload_info *info)
 {
     struct nlattr *nla;
     size_t left;
 
+    netdev_dpdk_flow_add_count_action(actions);
     NL_ATTR_FOR_EACH_UNSAFE (nla, left, nl_actions, nl_actions_len) {
-        VLOG_DBG_RL(&error_rl,
-                    "Unsupported action type %d", nl_attr_type(nla));
-        return -1;
+        if (nl_attr_type(nla) == OVS_ACTION_ATTR_OUTPUT) {
+            if (!(left <= NLA_ALIGN(nla->nla_len)) ||
+                netdev_dpdk_flow_add_output_action(actions, nla, info )) {
+                return -1;
+            }
+        } else {
+            VLOG_DBG_RL(&error_rl,
+                        "Unsupported action type %d", nl_attr_type(nla));
+            return -1;
+        }
     }
 
     if (nl_actions_len == 0) {
-- 
2.14.5



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