Roopa Prabhu says:
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Support for fdb ECMP nexthop groups
This series 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.
The patches make sure that routes dont reference 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 -
- fix error path free_skb in vxlan_xmit_nh
- fix atomic notifier initialization issue
(Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>)
The reported error was easy to locate and fix, but i was not
able to re-test with the robot reproducer script due to some
other issues with running the script on my test system.
v3 - fix wording in selftest print as pointed out by davidA
v2 -
- dropped nikolays fixes for nexthop multipath null pointer deref
(he will send those separately)
- added negative tests for route add with fdb nexthop + a few more
- Fixes for a few fdb replace conditions found during more testing
- Moved to rcu_dereference_rtnl in vxlan_fdb_info and consolidate rcu
dereferences
- Fixes to build failures Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
- DavidA, I am going to send a separate patch for the neighbor code validation
for NDA_NH_ID if thats ok.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>