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In order to offload TC encap rules, the driver does a lookup for the IP tunnel neighbour according to the output device and the destination IP given by the user. To keep tracking after the validity state of such neighbours, we keep the neighbours information (pair of device pointer and destination IP) in a hash table maintained at the relevant egress representor and register to get NETEVENT_NEIGH_UPDATE events. When getting neighbour update netevent, we search for a match among the cached neighbours entries used for encapsulation. In case the neighbour isn't valid, we can't offload the flow into the HW. We cache the flow (requested matching and actions) in the driver and offload the rule later, when the neighbour is resolved and becomes valid. When a flow is only cached in the driver and not offloaded into HW yet, we use EAGAIN return value to mark it internally, the TC ndo still returns success. Listen to kernel neighbour update netevents to trace relevant neighbours validity state: 1. If a neighbour becomes valid, offload the related rules to HW. 2. If the neighbour becomes invalid, remove the related rules from HW. 3. If the neighbour mac address was changed, update the encap header. Remove all the offloaded rules using the old encap header from the HW and insert new rules to HW with updated encap header. Access to the neighbors hash table is protected by RTNL lock of its caller or by the table's spinlock. Details of the locking/synchronization among the different actions applied on the neighbour table: Add/remove operations - protected by RTNL lock of its caller (all TC commands are protected by RTNL lock). Add and remove operations are initiated only when the user inserts/removes a TC rule into/from the driver. Lookup/remove operations - since the lookup operation is done from netevent notifier block, RTNL lock can't be used (atomic context). Use the table's spin lock to protect lookups from TC user removal operation. bh is used since netevent can be called from a softirq context. Lookup/add operations - The hash table access functions are taking care of the protection between lookup and add operations. When adding/removing encap headers and rules to/from the HW, RTNL lock is used. It can happen when: 1. The user inserts/removes a TC rule into/from the driver (TC commands are protected by RTNL lock of it's caller). 2. The driver gets neighbour notification event, which reports about neighbour validity status change. Before adding/removing encap headers and rules to/from the HW, RTNL lock is taken. A neighbour hash table entry should be freed when its encap list is empty. Since The neighbour update netevent notification schedules a neighbour update work that uses the neighbour hash entry, it can't be freed unconditionally when the encap list becomes empty during TC delete rule flow. Use reference count to protect from freeing neighbour hash table entry while it's still in use. When the user asks to unregister a netdvice used by one of the neigbours, neighbour removal notification is received. Then we take a reference on the neighbour and don't free it until the relevant encap entries (and flows) are marked as invalid (not offloaded) and removed from HW. As long as the encap entry is still valid (checked under RTNL lock) we can safely access the neighbour device saved on mlx5e_neigh struct. Signed-off-by: Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.