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When a packet hits a multipath route in the device's routing table, a
hash is computed over its headers, which is then used to select the
appropriate nexthop from the device's adjacency table.
There are situations in which the kernel removes a nexthop from a
multipath route (e.g., no carrier) and the device should do the same.
Upon the reception of NH_{ADD,DEL} events, add or remove a nexthop from
the device's adjacency table and refresh all the routes using the
nexthop group. If all the nexthops of a multipath route are invalid,
then any packet hitting the route would be trapped to the CPU for
forwarding.
If all the nexthops are DEAD, then the kernel would remove the route
entirely. On the other hand, if all the nexthops are merely LINKDOWN,
then the kernel would keep the route and forward any incoming packet
using a different route.
While the last case might sound like a problem, it's expected that a
routing daemon running in user space would remove such a route from the
FIB as it's dumped with the DEAD flag set.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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When a multipath route is hit the kernel doesn't consider nexthops that
are DEAD or LINKDOWN when IN_DEV_IGNORE_ROUTES_WITH_LINKDOWN is set.
Devices that offload multipath routes need to be made aware of nexthop
status changes. Otherwise, the device will keep forwarding packets to
non-functional nexthops.
Add the FIB_EVENT_NH_{ADD,DEL} events to the fib notification chain,
which notify capable devices when they should add or delete a nexthop
from their tables.
Cc: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The device can have one of three actions associated with a route:
1) Remote - packets continue to the adjacency table
2) Local - packets continue to the neighbour table
3) Trap - packets continue to the CPU
The first two actions can also trap packets to the CPU, but they do so
using a different trap ID, which has a lower traffic class and less
allotted bandwidth.
We currently use the third action for both RTN_{LOCAL,BROADCAST} routes
and RTN_UNICAST routes not pointing to the switch ports.
However, packets that merely need to be forwarded by the switch are
likely not control packets and can be therefore scheduled towards the
CPU using a lower traffic class.
Achieve the above by assigning the third action only to local and
broadcast routes and have any other route use either of the first two
actions, based on whether the route is gatewayed or not.
This will also allow us to refresh routes using the local action and
have them trap packets when their RIF is no longer valid following a
NH_DEL event.
One side effect of this patch is that we no longer give special
treatment to multipath routes using both switch and non-switch ports
towards their nexthops. If at least one of the nexthops can be resolved,
then the device will forward the packets instead of trapping them.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The previous patch introduced a generic function to determine whether a
route should be offloaded or not. Make use of it here.
In the future we're going to add more conditions to this test (e.g.,
whether TOS is non-zero), so it makes sense to centralize it instead of
open coding it in a few places.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We currently set the RTNH_F_OFFLOAD flag for all routes using remote
action, but this isn't always correct. If none of the nexthops
associated with a gatewayed route can be offloaded into the device, then
any packet hitting it would be trapped to the CPU and forwarded by the
kernel.
Solve this by pushing the setting of the offload flag to after the route
was programmed into the device, thereby allowing us to take all the
parameters into account.
This change will also help us further in the patchset, when we refresh
routes following the reception of NH_{ADD,DEL} events.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The nexthop init and de-init functions both have symmetric parts
concerned with the reflection of the neighbour entry into the device's
adjacency table, in case it's used by a gatewayed route.
These sections of code also need to be called when a nexthop is marked
as valid / invalid following NH_{ADD,DEL} events. Break these out into
appropriate functions, so that they could be invoked following the
reception of above events.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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After the previous changes, the FIB info is embedded in every nexthop
group struct, which in turn is embedded in every FIB entry struct.
We can therefore safely remove the FIB info from the entry struct. This
has the added advantage of making the router-related structs more
generic and suitable for use with IPv6 offloads.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Up until now, the only FIB entries that were associated with a nexthop
group were routes to remote networks where all the nexthop devices had a
valid router interface (RIF). This is in contrast to the FIB code,
where all the routes are associated with a FIB info. The same design
choice needs to be applied to the driver's cache.
Based on the NH_{ADD,DEL} events which will be added later in the
patchset, we need to be able to change the action (forward / trap)
associated with all the routes using the nexthop group. However, if we
can't link between the nexthop and the routes using it, then the above
is impossible.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The next patch is going to generalize the way in which we store routes.
Instead of attaching a nexthop group only to gatewayed routes, one will
be attached to each route, in a similar way to the way the FIB code
stores its routes.
The above means that any function operating on a nexthop group cannot
assume the group represents only gatewayed nexthops. One such function
is the one that refreshes a nexthop group and updates the adjacency
table following nexthop changes.
For a nexthop group that doesn't represent any gateways this function
would essentially be a NOP, but it would be useful if it did update the
action associated with any route using it. This will allow us to later
consolidate code paths when a nexthop changes following NH_{ADD,DEL}
events.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We currently use the scope of the FIB info to distinguish between a
direct unicast route and a gatewayed one. However, the kernel is
perfectly happy to configure a route with scope UNIVERSE to a directly
connected network.
Instead, we can rely on the first nexthop's scope to check if the route
is gatewayed or not.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Later in the patchset we'll add the NH_{ADD,DEL} events which will let
us know when a nexthop is considered to be dead. Based on these events
we need to be able to add or remove the nexthop from the device's
tables.
Therefore, store the private nexthop structs in a hash table and use the
kernel's fib_nh struct as the key, so that we'll be able to easily find
them when the events are received.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Currently, when we're notified about a new RTN_UNICAST route we perform
a lookup on the nexthop group list looking for a group with a matching
configuration to that found in the FIB info. This is quite inefficient.
Instead, we can simply rely on the kernel to consolidate several FIB
configurations into the same FIB info and use the FIB info as the key
for our private nexthop group struct.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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When we invalidate a nexthop we should also invalidate its neighbour
entry pointer as it might be destroyed later on. This makes the nexthop
de-init function symmetric with its init and also ensures nobody will
try to access the neighbour entry.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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