From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Ariel Levkovich <lariel@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 8/8] net/mlx5: Add vf ACL access via tc flower
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 14:06:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191113130651.GA2176@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191112154124.4f0f38f9@cakuba>
Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 12:41:24AM CET, jakub.kicinski@netronome.com wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:13:53 +0000, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
>> From: Ariel Levkovich <lariel@mellanox.com>
>>
>> Implementing vf ACL access via tc flower api to allow
>> admins configure the allowed vlan ids on a vf interface.
>>
>> To add a vlan id to a vf's ingress/egress ACL table while
>> in legacy sriov mode, the implementation intercepts tc flows
>> created on the pf device where the flower matching keys include
>> the vf's mac address as the src_mac (eswitch ingress) or the
>> dst_mac (eswitch egress) while the action is accept.
>>
>> In such cases, the mlx5 driver interpets these flows as adding
>> a vlan id to the vf's ingress/egress ACL table and updates
>> the rules in that table using eswitch ACL configuration api
>> that is introduced in a previous patch.
>
>Nack, the magic interpretation of rules installed on the PF is a no go.
For the record, I don't like this approach either. The solution is
out there, one just have to properly implement bridge offloading.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-13 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-12 17:13 [pull request][net-next 0/8] Mellanox, mlx5 updates 2019-11-12 Saeed Mahameed
2019-11-12 17:13 ` [net-next 1/8] net/mlx5: DR, Fix matcher builders select check Saeed Mahameed
2019-11-12 17:13 ` [net-next 2/8] net/mlx5: Read num_vfs before disabling SR-IOV Saeed Mahameed
2019-11-12 17:13 ` [net-next 3/8] net/mlx5: Remove redundant NULL initializations Saeed Mahameed
2019-11-12 17:13 ` [net-next 4/8] net/mlx5e: Fix error flow cleanup in mlx5e_tc_tun_create_header_ipv4/6 Saeed Mahameed
2019-11-12 17:13 ` [net-next 5/8] net/mlx5e: Set netdev name space on creation Saeed Mahameed
2019-11-12 17:13 ` [net-next 6/8] net/mlx5: Add devlink reload Saeed Mahameed
2019-11-12 17:13 ` [net-next 7/8] net/mlx5: Add eswitch ACL vlan trunk api Saeed Mahameed
2019-11-12 17:13 ` [net-next 8/8] net/mlx5: Add vf ACL access via tc flower Saeed Mahameed
2019-11-12 23:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-13 0:21 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2019-11-13 0:31 ` Saeed Mahameed
2019-11-13 20:19 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-13 21:35 ` Saeed Mahameed
2019-11-13 13:06 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
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