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David S. Miller
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Petr Machata says: ==================== net: Resilient NH groups: netdevsim, selftests Support for resilient next-hop groups was added in a previous patch set. Resilient next hop groups add a layer of indirection between the SKB hash and the next hop. Thus the hash is used to reference a hash table bucket, which is then used to reference a particular next hop. This allows the system more flexibility when assigning SKB hash space to next hops. Previously, each next hop had to be assigned a continuous range of SKB hash space. With a hash table as an intermediate layer, it is possible to reassign next hops with a hash table bucket granularity. In turn, this mends issues with traffic flow redirection resulting from next hop removal or adjustments in next-hop weights. This patch set introduces mock offloading of resilient next hop groups by the netdevsim driver, and a suite of selftests. - Patch #1 adds a netdevsim-specific lock to protect next-hop hashtable. Previously, netdevsim relied on RTNL to maintain mutual exclusion. Patch #2 extracts a helper to make the following patches clearer. - Patch #3 implements the support for offloading of resilient next-hop groups. - Patch #4 introduces a new debugfs interface to set activity on a selected next-hop bucket. This simulates how HW can periodically report bucket activity, and buckets thus marked are expected to be exempt from migration to new next hops when the group changes. - Patches #5 and #6 clean up the fib_nexthop selftests. - Patches #7, #8 and #9 add tests for resilient next hop groups. Patch #7 adds resilient-hashing counterparts to fib_nexthops.sh. Patch #8 adds a new traffic test for resilient next-hop groups. Patch #9 adds a new traffic test for tunneling. - Patch #10 actually leverages the netdevsim offload to implement a suite of algorithmic tests that verify how and when buckets are migrated under various simulated workload scenarios. The overall plan is to contribute approximately the following patchsets: 1) Nexthop policy refactoring (already pushed) 2) Preparations for resilient next hop groups (already pushed) 3) Implementation of resilient next hop group (already pushed) 4) Netdevsim offload plus a suite of selftests (this patchset) 5) Preparations for mlxsw offload of resilient next-hop groups 6) mlxsw offload including selftests Interested parties can look at the complete code at [2]. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2992 [2] https://github.com/idosch/linux/commits/submit/res_integ_v1 ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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