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2020-05-29Added initial support for NDP (IPv6)Xavier Simonart1-6/+17
Following messages are now handled by PROX - router_solicitation - neighbour_solicitation - router_advertisement - neighbour_advertisement The following parameters are supported (through the PROX config file) - sub mode=ndp This will enable handling of router and neighbour solicitation and advertisement. - local ipv6=xxxx:xxxx:xxxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx This will configure the local IPv6 address of the port. This parameter is optional. If not specified, the local IPv6 will be calculated from the EUI. - global ipv6=xxxx:xxxx:xxxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx This will configure the global IPv6 address of the port. This parameter is optional. If not specified, the global IPv6 will be calculated from the EUI and the router prefix received from the router. - ipv6 router=yes This will cause the core to behave as an IPv6 router i.e. it will generate Router Advertisement messages This is only useful in back to back cases, when no real IPv6 router is present in the setup. - router prefix=xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx The router prefix usedin the router advertisement The prefix will be used by the node to build an IPv6 global address in cases none were configured. "Unsollicited NA" parameter has been added within the core/task section. If set to yes (Unsollicited NA=yes), then an unsollicited neighbour Advertisement is sent at startup A same core/task cannot support both l3 and ndp mode. Those messages will be generated or handled when submode is set to "ndp": - neighbour sollicitation - neighbour advertisement - router sollicitation - router advertisement An example configuration is provided: config/ipv6.cfg in which port 0 / core 1 plays the role of the generator and port 1 / core 2 plays the role of the swap. Change-Id: Id0ab32d384448b4cf767fb4a1c486fc023f4f395 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2019-03-06PROX generator: performance optimization (2/4)Xavier Simonart1-4/+0
Improve PROX generator performance by pre-calculating bytes_to_tsc. This improvement is only implemented for non-pcap generator, where only few different packet sizes are usually generated. This change might have a negative performance impact in some cases, if many different packet sizes are generated, resulting in higher memory usage. This is the case for instance if random is applied to packet size. In addition, simplified the rx path, receiving now only MAX_PKT_BURST packets per handle loop. Before we were trying to empty the NIC looping on RX packets, ending up with many rx packets per handle loop. This was used to determine an lower bound for the time the packet was received. We now set the lower bound when less than MAX_PKT_BURST has been received. Change-Id: I1ce813d7e4ac1577ea412c590add5d6f94b36ec7 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2019-01-03Prevent dropping ARP packetsXavier Simonart1-11/+8
JIRA: SAMPLEVNF-152 When system is overloaded, ARP packets were sometimes dropped, as any other packets. This was causing two issues: - The count of TX non dataplane packets was wrong - If many consecutive ARP packets were dropped, the underlying switch might see its ARP timer expiring, causing performance degradation (packets being broadcasted). ARP packets are now always sent as no-drop. Change-Id: I9a86cbf8c4b56a178f86bc789153f1fa49ddf73f Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2017-12-18Add l3 support for tasks without physical tx portsXavier Simonart1-2/+2
This adds support for tasks in l3 submode receiving from ports but transmitting to rings. ARP related information is exchanged between tasks through master core. Tasks transmitting to physical ports are responsible to transmit arp related packets. Tasks not transmitting to physical ports (and using rings) should not try to transmit arp packets. Transmitting arp packets through ring would be more complex, as we would need extra information (within the mbuf) to distinguish for instance an arp reply comoing from the network and an arp reply coming from a core (as a reply to an arp request). Change-Id: Ib55dc8c39d5e55703a933faa16bcc008f1274929 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2017-11-15Add support for nop mode with l3 submodeXavier Simonart1-6/+6
The l3 submode was not supported in nop mode, as the nop mode uses some specific nop thread (and not generic). When L3 is specified, the nop mode must use the generic thread. In addition the l3 submode is implemented differently than other submodes. It is not supported through task_init structures (i.e. each task does not have to explicitely tell that it supports l3 submode). But this prevented to run both a nop with no submode and a nop with a l3 submode. Note that nop with l3 is usually not very useful - it handles arp (requests and response) but as nop, it does not swap IP addresses. So with a real switch, the packets transmitted will be received back... and l3 mode is usually mainly usefull when using a switch. However, there is at least one nop mode where l3 submode makes sense: when the nop does not transmit. In such cases, for instace used in conjunction with a gen l3, the nop receives all packets and forward the arp requests and responses to the master for handling. Change-Id: I992121db285ba25a11cbb494092a6afc6fe55a58 Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
2017-10-25Merge changes from PROX-v041Patrice Buriez1-6/+40
Change-Id: Ie6d4e7ce22c27967117a446626f5923643397812 Signed-off-by: Patrice Buriez <patrice.buriez@intel.com>
2017-07-14Adding PROX(Packet pROcessing eXecution engine) VNF to sampleVNFDeepak S1-0/+401
JIRA: SAMPLEVNF-55 PROX is a DPDK-based application implementing Telco use-cases such as a simplified BRAS/BNG, light-weight AFTR... It also allows configuring finer grained network functions like QoS, Routing, load-balancing... (We are moving PROX version v039 to sampleVNF https://01.org/intel-data-plane-performance-demonstrators/prox-overview) Change-Id: Ia3cb02cf0e49ac5596e922c197ff7e010293d033 Signed-off-by: Deepak S <deepak.s@linux.intel.com>