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  1. May 23, 2020
    • Roopa Prabhu's avatar
      vxlan: ecmp support for mac fdb entries · 1274e1cc
      Roopa Prabhu authored 
      Todays vxlan mac fdb entries can point to multiple remote
ips (rdsts) with the sole purpose of replicating
broadcast-multicast and unknown unicast packets to those remote ips.

E-VPN multihoming [1,2,3] requires bridged vxlan traffic to be
load balanced to remote switches (vteps) belonging to the
same multi-homed ethernet segment (E-VPN multihoming is analogous
to multi-homed LAG implementations, but with the inter-switch
peerlink replaced with a vxlan tunnel). In other words it needs
support for mac ecmp. Furthermore, for faster convergence, E-VPN
multihoming needs the ability to update fdb ecmp nexthops independent
of the fdb entries.

New route nexthop API is perfect for this usecase.
This patch extends the vxlan fdb code to take a nexthop id
pointing to an ecmp nexthop group.

Changes include:
- New NDA_NH_ID attribute for fdbs
- Use the newly added fdb nexthop groups
- makes vxlan rdsts and nexthop handling code mutually
  exclusive
- since this is a new use-case and the requirement is for ecmp
nexthop groups, the fdb add and update path checks that the
nexthop is really an ecmp nexthop group. This check can be relaxed
in the future, if we want to introduce replication fdb nexthop groups
and allow its use in lieu of current rdst lists.
- fdb update requests with nexthop id's only allowed for existing
fdb's that have nexthop id's
- learning will not override an existing fdb entry with nexthop
group
- I have wrapped the switchdev offload code around the presence of
rdst

[1] E-VPN RFC https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7432
[2] E-VPN with vxlan https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8365
[3] http://vger.kernel.org/lpc_net2018_talks/scaling_bridge_fdb_database_slidesV3.pdf



Includes a null check fix in vxlan_xmit from Nikolay

v2 - Fixed build issue:
Reported-by: default avatarkbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRoopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      1274e1cc
    • Roopa Prabhu's avatar
      nexthop: support for fdb ecmp nexthops · 38428d68
      Roopa Prabhu authored 
      This patch introduces ecmp nexthops and nexthop groups
for mac fdb entries. In subsequent patches this is used
by the vxlan driver fdb entries. The use case is
E-VPN multihoming [1,2,3] which requires bridged vxlan traffic
to be load balanced to remote switches (vteps) belonging to
the same multi-homed ethernet segment (This is analogous to
a multi-homed LAG but over vxlan).

Changes include new nexthop flag NHA_FDB for nexthops
referenced by fdb entries. These nexthops only have ip.
This patch includes appropriate checks to avoid routes
referencing such nexthops.

example:
$ip nexthop add id 12 via 172.16.1.2 fdb
$ip nexthop add id 13 via 172.16.1.3 fdb
$ip nexthop add id 102 group 12/13 fdb

$bridge fdb add 02:02:00:00:00:13 dev vxlan1000 nhid 101 self

[1] E-VPN https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7432
[2] E-VPN VxLAN: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8365
[3] LPC talk with mention of nexthop groups for L2 ecmp
http://vger.kernel.org/lpc_net2018_talks/scaling_bridge_fdb_database_slidesV3.pdf



v4 - fixed uninitialized variable reported by kernel test robot
Reported-by: default avatarkernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: default avatarRoopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      38428d68
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge branch '1GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-queue · 7b1b843a
      David S. Miller authored 
      

Jeff Kirsher says:

====================
1GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2020-05-21

This series contains updates to igc and e1000.

Andre cleans up code that was left over from the igb driver that handled
MAC address filters based on the source address, which is not currently
supported.  Simplifies the MAC address filtering code and prepare the
igc driver for future source address support.  Updated the MAC address
filter internal APIs to support filters based on source address.  Added
support for Network Flow Classification (NFC) rules based on source MAC
address.  Cleaned up the 'cookie' field which is not used anywhere in
the code and cleaned up a wrapper function that was not needed.
Simplified the filtering code for readability and aligned the ethtool
functions, so that function names were consistent.

Alex provides a fix for e1000 to resolve a deadlock issue when NAPI is
being disabled.

Sasha does additional cleanup of the igc driver of dead code that is not
used or needed.

v2: Fix the function header comment in patch 3 of the series, based on
    the feedback from Jakub Kicinski.
====================

Reviewed-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      7b1b843a
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