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- vdev devices now support VLAN.
- kernel tap device can be configured with a netmask (/24 was
always used in previous version).
- when sending a (fake) packet to the kernel, this packet will now
not be routed by the kernel (i.e. it will leave through the
interface configured by PROX). This might change in the futture
when PROX supports multiple VLANs per port. But today it prevents
ARP being sent on management interfaces.
- Log error in case kernel unable to send packet.
- Added support for comments (';') in lua sections.
- Prevent duplication of local_ipv4 - should now be configured in port section
local_ipv4 in core section still supported
Change-Id: I8f9a40fe6ad6f3013ff91b58b44627c7f34081e6
Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
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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>
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Two cases where performance has been improved
- When using a gateway from a routing table (l3 submode),
store the mac within the next hop table, to avoid a hash_lookup.
This gives ~10% improvement.
- Read tsc only once per bulk (of up to 64 packets).
This gives ~10% improvement to swap, 4% to gen.
In addition a small fix has been added, preventig "No route" Error
to be written too aften.
Change-Id: I8a7ab74a32f09c8ff47f751ee91e84afee1b2147
Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
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Through this commit BGP messages are forwarded to tap device
Netlink messages are enabled to receive route Updates.
In addition, generating tasks can also specify a routing table
which will be used when sending packets
The routes initialized by the routing table can be changed through
the reception of BGP messages
Change-Id: I187ba9a921885cbc9b209aae5fb654309e3388b8
Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
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The crlplane performance has been improved. This is necessary when
handling many IP in L3 mode (i.e. many ARP Requests/Replies).
Before this change, arp timer was updated as soon as an
arp request was tentativaly sent to the master. This means that,
if the request failed to be sent (e.g. ring full) we had to wait
arp_update_time (default 1sec) before trying again.
Now arp_update_time is only used when an arp reply is received.
If a request has been successfully sent, then the arp timer
is updated by 1 second (i.e. we will not send any arp reuest for this
IP within this second)
If we failed to send the request, then the timer is updated by 100 msec
which means we will wait 100 msec before trying again.
A too high value here would have meant that we have to wait a long time
before trying again. A too short value overload the master ring with
request to transmit ARP requests, so that master is unable to handle
arp replies.
arp_update_time is now also partly randomized to avoid all IPs to request
arp request at the beginning of the test. So if arp_update_time is 10 sec
then the configuration sets it to 5 to 15 sec.
As a final note the following parameter (already implemented before)
can be changed to improve ctrlplane performance (at the cost of dataplane)
ctrl path polling frequency=10000
Change-Id: I9660458a22e7442eaa0c83aaa0c9893a15069f98
Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
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dump packets (e.g. dump 1 0 1) was in some cases dumping more
packets than expected.
Proper count of packets is now dumped.
Change-Id: I0974465d617eda00e77ee87148bf96991ecd3ed7
Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
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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>
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In L3 mode, prox is extracting IP destination address in the packets.
It uses this destination address to find the MAC address.
If the MAC address is not found, it sends a ARP request.
It also sends ARP request when it realizes that some timeout expired.
However, PROX was using the mbuf of the existing packets (to be forwarded)
to send the ARP. This resulted in packet loss.
Now PROX is generating ARP requests using mbuf from an ARP mempool.
Some clean up was also done.
Change-Id: Icb6083a8cdf88789553ad23c32ca12d6b7ba7f08
Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
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Print IP address in a.b.c.d format instead of one 32-bit number.
Better align debugging information in log file
Change-Id: Icfab30836ba83d53f700fcfbdfbd7cf238ed7bf8
Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
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In some (rare) modes, more than 64 packets can be received through
one rx function. This is for instance the case of the lat mode.
Change-Id: Ie733c927a8e116c679c464f2551768185ef85366
Signed-off-by: Xavier Simonart <xavier.simonart@intel.com>
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Change-Id: Ie6d4e7ce22c27967117a446626f5923643397812
Signed-off-by: Patrice Buriez <patrice.buriez@intel.com>
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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>
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