This commit fixes two bugs related to tap devices. The first bug occurs
when executing in testpmd the following flow rule assuming tap device has
4 rx and tx pair queues
"flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / end actions queue index 5 / end"
This command will report on success and will print ""Flow rule #0 created"
although it should have failed as queue index number 5 does not exist
The second bug occurs when executing in testpmd "port start all" following
a port configuration. Assuming 1 pair of rx and tx queues an error is
reported: "Fail to start port 0"
Before this commit a fixed max number (16) of rx and tx queue pairs were
created on startup where the file descriptors (fds) of rx and tx pairs were
identical. As a result in the first bug queue index 5 existed because the
tap device was created with 16 rx and tx queue pairs regardless of the
configured number of queues. In the second bug when tap device was started
tx fd was closed before opening it and executing ioctl() on it. However
closing the sole fd of the device caused ioctl to fail with "No such
device".
This commit creates the configured number of rx and tx queue pairs (up to
max 16) and assigns a unique fd to each queue. It was written to solve the
first bug and was found as the right fix for the second bug as well.
Fixes: 02f96a0a82d1 ("net/tap: add TUN/TAP device PMD")
Fixes: bf7b7f437b49 ("net/tap: create netdevice during probing")
Fixes: de96fe68ae95 ("net/tap: add basic flow API patterns and actions")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
Remove checks of Linux kernel version
in order to support kernel with backported features.
the expected behavior with a kernel that doesn't support flower
and other bits is the following:
-flow validate can return successfully
-flow create using the same rule fails.
Using the "remote" feature without kernel flower does not fail silently.
The TAP instance is not initialized if the requested parameters cannot
be satisfied.
it has been tested on an old kernel without required support:
PMD: Kernel refused TC filter rule creation (2): No such file or directory
PMD: tap0 failed to create implicit rules.
PMD: Can't set up remote feature: No such file of directory(2)
PMD: TAP Unable to initialize net_tap0
Signed-off-by: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
When exiting a DPDK application, the TAP remote was left
with the link down even if it was initially up.
The device flags of the remote netdevice are saved when probing,
and restored when calling the close function.
The remote state is not set down when calling the stop function anymore.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
With this patch, it is possible to enable or disable the isolate
feature anytime, even immediately after a probe while the tap has not
been configured yet. It will do its job as soon as the netdevice gets
created.
A specific implicit flow rule is created with the lowest priority (all
other flow rules will be evaluated before), at the end of the list. If
isolated mode is enabled, the associated action will be to drop the
packet. Otherwise, the action would be passthrough.
In case of a remote netdevice, implicit rules on it will be removed in
isolated mode, to ensure only actual flow rules redirect packets to the
tap.
Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
The macro RTE_PMD_TAP_MAX_QUEUES was defined twice.
On machines with kernel < 3.8, IFF_MULTI_QUEUE didn't exist, and thus
both definitions used different values.
Fixes: cf5643661161 ("net/tap: move private elements to external header")
Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
As tap is a virtual device, there's no physical way a link can be cut.
However, it has an associated kernel netdevice and possibly a remote
netdevice too. These netdevices link status may change outside of the
DPDK scope, through an external command such as:
ip link set dev tapX down
This commit implements link status notification through netlink.
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>
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>
