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>
Support for segmented packets (scatter/gather) is mandatory for most
purposes, regardless of the MTU size. Tx packets are often the result of
mbuf concatenation, and an mbuf is not necessarily large enough for Rx
packets to fit in a single one.
Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.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 flow API provides the ability to classify packets received by a tap
netdevice.
This patch only implements skeleton functions for flow API support, no
patterns are supported yet.
Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
In the next patch, access to struct pmd_internals will be necessary in
tap_flow.c to store the flows.
Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
