Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/4] net/sched: Introduce action hash

[Ariel Levkovich <lariel@mellanox.com>]

On 7/13/20 6:04 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 2:28 PM Ariel Levkovich <lariel@mellanox.com> wrote:
>> Allow user to set a packet's hash value using a bpf program.
>>
>> The user provided BPF program is required to compute and return
>> a hash value for the packet which is then stored in skb->hash.
> Can be done by act_bpf, right?

Right. We already agreed on that.

Nevertheless, as I mentioned, act_bpf is not offloadable.

Device driver has no clue what the program does.

>
>> Using this action to set the skb->hash is an alternative to setting
>> it with act_skbedit and can be useful for future HW offload support
>> when the HW hash function is different then the kernel's hash
>> function.
>> By using a bpg program that emulates the HW hash function user
>> can ensure hash consistency between the SW and the HW.
> It sounds weird that the sole reason to add a new action is
> because of HW offloading. What prevents us extending the
> existing actions to support HW offloading?
>
> Thanks.
Something like adding a parameter to act_bpf that provides information 
on the program

and what it does?


Ariel