The flow API is supported in TAP PMD if flower is supported in Linux.
Some commands are combined to suggest a convenient check of its support
by the running kernel.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Support for a fixed MAC address for testing with the last octet
incrementing by one for each interface defined with the new 'mac=fixed'
string on the --vdev option. The default option is still to randomize
the MAC address for each tap interface.
Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
By default, a tap netdevice is of no use when not fed by a separate
process. The ability to automatically feed it from another netdevice
allows applications to capture any kind of traffic normally destined to
the kernel stack.
This patch implements this ability through a new optional "remote"
parameter.
Packets matching filtering rules created with the flow API are matched
on the remote device and redirected to the tap PMD, where the relevant
action will be performed.
Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Supported flow rules are now mapped to TC rules on the tap netdevice.
The netlink message used for creating the TC rule is stored in struct
rte_flow. That way, by simply changing a metadata in it, we can require
for the rule deletion without further parsing.
Supported items:
- eth: src and dst (with variable masks), and eth_type (0xffff mask).
- vlan: vid, pcp, tpid, but not eid.
- ipv4/6: src and dst (with variable masks), and ip_proto (0xffff mask).
- udp/tcp: src and dst port (0xffff) mask.
Supported actions:
- DROP
- QUEUE
- PASSTHRU
It is generally not possible to provide a "last" item. However, if the
"last" item, once masked, is identical to the masked spec, then it is
supported.
Only IPv4/6 and MAC addresses can use a variable mask. All other
items need a full mask (exact match).
Support for VLAN requires kernel headers >= 4.9, checked using
auto-config.sh.
Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
The PMD allows for DPDK and the host to communicate using a raw
device interface on the host and in the DPDK application. The device
created is a Tap device with a L2 packet header.
Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aws Ismail <aismail@ciena.com>
Tested-by: Vasily Philipov <vasilyf@mellanox.com>
