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    ipv4: Add "offload" and "trap" indications to routes · 90b93f1b
    Ido Schimmel authored
    When performing L3 offload, routes and nexthops are usually programmed
    into two different tables in the underlying device. Therefore, the fact
    that a nexthop resides in hardware does not necessarily mean that all
    the associated routes also reside in hardware and vice-versa.
    
    While the kernel can signal to user space the presence of a nexthop in
    hardware (via 'RTNH_F_OFFLOAD'), it does not have a corresponding flag
    for routes. In addition, the fact that a route resides in hardware does
    not necessarily mean that the traffic is offloaded. For example,
    unreachable routes (i.e., 'RTN_UNREACHABLE') are programmed to trap
    packets to the CPU so that the kernel will be able to generate the
    appropriate ICMP error packet.
    
    This patch adds an "offload" and "trap" indications to IPv4 routes, so
    that users will have better visibility into the offload process.
    
    'struct fib_alias' is extended with two new fields that indicate if the
    route resides in hardware or not and if it is offloading traffic from
    the kernel or trapping packets to it. Note that the new fields are added
    in the 6 bytes hole and therefore the struct still fits in a single
    cache line [1].
    
    Capable drivers are expected to invoke fib_alias_hw_flags_set() with the
    route's key in order to set the flags.
    
    The indications are dumped to user space via a new flags (i.e.,
    'RTM_F_OFFLOAD' and 'RTM_F_TRAP') in the 'rtm_flags' field in the
    ancillary header.
    
    v2:
    * Make use of 'struct fib_rt_info' in fib_alias_hw_flags_set()
    
    [1]
    struct fib_alias {
            struct hlist_node  fa_list;                      /*     0    16 */
            struct fib_info *          fa_info;              /*    16     8 */
            u8                         fa_tos;               /*    24     1 */
            u8                         fa_type;              /*    25     1 */
            u8                         fa_state;             /*    26     1 */
            u8                         fa_slen;              /*    27     1 */
            u32                        tb_id;                /*    28     4 */
            s16                        fa_default;           /*    32     2 */
            u8                         offload:1;            /*    34: 0  1 */
            u8                         trap:1;               /*    34: 1  1 */
            u8                         unused:6;             /*    34: 2  1 */
    
            /* XXX 5 bytes hole, try to pack */
    
            struct callback_head rcu __attribute__((__aligned__(8))); /*    40    16 */
    
            /* size: 56, cachelines: 1, members: 12 */
            /* sum members: 50, holes: 1, sum holes: 5 */
            /* sum bitfield members: 8 bits (1 bytes) */
            /* forced alignments: 1, forced holes: 1, sum forced holes: 5 */
            /* last cacheline: 56 bytes */
    } __attribute__((__aligned__(8)));
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIdo Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    90b93f1b
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