ethdev: bring in async indirect actions operations

Queue-based flow rules management mechanism is suitable
not only for flow rules creation/destruction, but also
for speeding up other types of Flow

ethdev: bring in async indirect actions operations

Queue-based flow rules management mechanism is suitable
not only for flow rules creation/destruction, but also
for speeding up other types of Flow API management.
Indirect action object operations may be executed
asynchronously as well. Provide async versions for all
indirect action operations, namely:
rte_flow_async_action_handle_create,
rte_flow_async_action_handle_destroy and
rte_flow_async_action_handle_update.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kozyrev <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <[email protected]>

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ethdev: bring in async queue-based flow rules operations

A new, faster, queue-based flow rules management mechanism is needed for
applications offloading rules inside the datapath. This asynchronous

ethdev: bring in async queue-based flow rules operations

A new, faster, queue-based flow rules management mechanism is needed for
applications offloading rules inside the datapath. This asynchronous
and lockless mechanism frees the CPU for further packet processing and
reduces the performance impact of the flow rules creation/destruction
on the datapath. Note that queues are not thread-safe and the queue
should be accessed from the same thread for all queue operations.
It is the responsibility of the app to sync the queue functions in case
of multi-threaded access to the same queue.

The rte_flow_async_create() function enqueues a flow creation to the
requested queue. It benefits from already configured resources and sets
unique values on top of item and action templates. A flow rule is enqueued
on the specified flow queue and offloaded asynchronously to the hardware.
The function returns immediately to spare CPU for further packet
processing. The application must invoke the rte_flow_pull() function
to complete the flow rule operation offloading, to clear the queue, and to
receive the operation status. The rte_flow_async_destroy() function
enqueues a flow destruction to the requested queue.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kozyrev <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <[email protected]>

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ethdev: add flow item/action templates

Treating every single flow rule as a completely independent and separate
entity negatively impacts the flow rules insertion rate. Oftentimes in an
application,

ethdev: add flow item/action templates

Treating every single flow rule as a completely independent and separate
entity negatively impacts the flow rules insertion rate. Oftentimes in an
application, many flow rules share a common structure (the same item mask
and/or action list) so they can be grouped and classified together.
This knowledge may be used as a source of optimization by a PMD/HW.

The pattern template defines common matching fields (the item mask) without
values. The actions template holds a list of action types that will be used
together in the same rule. The specific values for items and actions will
be given only during the rule creation.

A table combines pattern and actions templates along with shared flow rule
attributes (group ID, priority and traffic direction). This way a PMD/HW
can prepare all the resources needed for efficient flow rules creation in
the datapath. To avoid any hiccups due to memory reallocation, the maximum
number of flow rules is defined at the table creation time.

The flow rule creation is done by selecting a table, a pattern template
and an actions template (which are bound to the table), and setting unique
values for the items and actions.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kozyrev <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <[email protected]>

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ethdev: introduce flow engine configuration

The flow rules creation/destruction at a large scale incurs a performance
penalty and may negatively impact the packet processing when used
as part of the

ethdev: introduce flow engine configuration

The flow rules creation/destruction at a large scale incurs a performance
penalty and may negatively impact the packet processing when used
as part of the datapath logic. This is mainly because software/hardware
resources are allocated and prepared during the flow rule creation.

In order to optimize the insertion rate, PMD may use some hints provided
by the application at the initialization phase. The rte_flow_configure()
function allows to pre-allocate all the needed resources beforehand.
These resources can be used at a later stage without costly allocations.
Every PMD may use only the subset of hints and ignore unused ones or
fail in case the requested configuration is not supported.

The rte_flow_info_get() is available to retrieve the information about
supported pre-configurable resources. Both these functions must be called
before any other usage of the flow API engine.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kozyrev <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Rybchenko <[email protected]>

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ethdev: support GRE optional fields

Add flow pattern items and header format for matching optional fields
(checksum/key/sequence) in GRE header. And the flags in gre item should
be correspondingly s

ethdev: support GRE optional fields

Add flow pattern items and header format for matching optional fields
(checksum/key/sequence) in GRE header. And the flags in gre item should
be correspondingly set with the new added items.

Signed-off-by: Sean Zhang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>

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ethdev: fix variable length flow elements support

RTE flow API defines two flow elements types - common and PMD private.
Common RTE flow types are defined in rte_flow.h while PMD private
types exist

ethdev: fix variable length flow elements support

RTE flow API defines two flow elements types - common and PMD private.
Common RTE flow types are defined in rte_flow.h while PMD private
types exists inside specific PMD only. Application can create a flow
rule with PMD private items or actions. RTE flow API restricts
private PMD types to negative values.

Current implementation tried to use negative PMD private item type
value as index in the rte_flow_desc_item[] array.

The patch allows access to rte_flow_desc_item[] and
rte_flow_desc_action[] arrays to non-private PMD types only.

Fixes: 6cf72047332b ("ethdev: support flow elements with variable length")

Signed-off-by: Gregory Etelson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <[email protected]>

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ethdev: support L2TPv2 and PPP procotol

Added flow pattern items and header formats of L2TPv2 and PPP.

Signed-off-by: Wenjun Wu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jie Wang <[email protected]>

ethdev: support L2TPv2 and PPP procotol

Added flow pattern items and header formats of L2TPv2 and PPP.

Signed-off-by: Wenjun Wu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jie Wang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <[email protected]>

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ethdev: replace bit shifts with macros

The macros RTE_BIT32 and RTE_BIT64 are used to replace bit shifts.
The macro UINT64C is also used to replace remaining occurrences of ULL.

The bit shifts of E

ethdev: replace bit shifts with macros

The macros RTE_BIT32 and RTE_BIT64 are used to replace bit shifts.
The macro UINT64C is also used to replace remaining occurrences of ULL.

The bit shifts of ETH_RSS_LEVEL_* are kept for aesthetic reason.

The API of rte_mtr and rte_tm is using enums for 64-bit variables.
As they are enums, unsigned bit cannot be used.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Rybchenko <[email protected]>

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ethdev: introduce configurable flexible item

1. Introduction and Retrospective

Nowadays the networks are evolving fast and wide, the network
structures are getting more and more complicated, the ne

ethdev: introduce configurable flexible item

1. Introduction and Retrospective

Nowadays the networks are evolving fast and wide, the network
structures are getting more and more complicated, the new
application areas are emerging. To address these challenges
the new network protocols are continuously being developed,
considered by technical communities, adopted by industry and,
eventually implemented in hardware and software. The DPDK
framework follows the common trends and if we bother
to glance at the RTE Flow API header we see the multiple
new items were introduced during the last years since
the initial release.

The new protocol adoption and implementation process is
not straightforward and takes time, the new protocol passes
development, consideration, adoption, and implementation
phases. The industry tries to mitigate and address the
forthcoming network protocols, for example, many hardware
vendors are implementing flexible and configurable network
protocol parsers. As DPDK developers, could we anticipate
the near future in the same fashion and introduce the similar
flexibility in RTE Flow API?

Let's check what we already have merged in our project, and
we see the nice raw item (rte_flow_item_raw). At the first
glance, it looks superior and we can try to implement a flow
matching on the header of some relatively new tunnel protocol,
say on the GENEVE header with variable length options. And,
under further consideration, we run into the raw item
limitations:

- only fixed size network header can be represented
- the entire network header pattern of fixed format
(header field offsets are fixed) must be provided
- the search for patterns is not robust (the wrong matches
might be triggered), and actually is not supported
by existing PMDs
- no explicitly specified relations with preceding
and following items
- no tunnel hint support

As the result, implementing the support for tunnel protocols
like aforementioned GENEVE with variable extra protocol option
with flow raw item becomes very complicated and would require
multiple flows and multiple raw items chained in the same
flow (by the way, there is no support found for chained raw
items in implemented drivers).

This RFC introduces the dedicated flex item (rte_flow_item_flex)
to handle matches with existing and new network protocol headers
in a unified fashion.

2. Flex Item Life Cycle

Let's assume there are the requirements to support the new
network protocol with RTE Flows. What is given within protocol
specification:

- header format
- header length, (can be variable, depending on options)
- potential presence of extra options following or included
in the header the header
- the relations with preceding protocols. For example,
the GENEVE follows UDP, eCPRI can follow either UDP
or L2 header
- the relations with following protocols. For example,
the next layer after tunnel header can be L2 or L3
- whether the new protocol is a tunnel and the header
is a splitting point between outer and inner layers

The supposed way to operate with flex item:

- application defines the header structures according to
protocol specification

- application calls rte_flow_flex_item_create() with desired
configuration according to the protocol specification, it
creates the flex item object over specified ethernet device
and prepares PMD and underlying hardware to handle flex
item. On item creation call PMD backing the specified
ethernet device returns the opaque handle identifying
the object has been created

- application uses the rte_flow_item_flex with obtained handle
in the flows, the values/masks to match with fields in the
header are specified in the flex item per flow as for regular
items (except that pattern buffer combines all fields)

- flows with flex items match with packets in a regular fashion,
the values and masks for the new protocol header match are
taken from the flex items in the flows

- application destroys flows with flex items

- application calls rte_flow_flex_item_release() as part of
ethernet device API and destroys the flex item object in
PMD and releases the engaged hardware resources

3. Flex Item Structure

The flex item structure is intended to be used as part of the flow
pattern like regular RTE flow items and provides the mask and
value to match with fields of the protocol item was configured
for.

struct rte_flow_item_flex {
void *handle;
uint32_t length;
const uint8_t* pattern;
};

The handle is some opaque object maintained on per device basis
by underlying driver.

The protocol header fields are considered as bit fields, all
offsets and widths are expressed in bits. The pattern is the
buffer containing the bit concatenation of all the fields
presented at item configuration time, in the same order and
same amount. If byte boundary alignment is needed an application
can use a dummy type field, this is just some kind of gap filler.

The length field specifies the pattern buffer length in bytes
and is needed to allow rte_flow_copy() operations. The approach
of multiple pattern pointers and lengths (per field) was
considered and found clumsy - it seems to be much suitable for
the application to maintain the single structure within the
single pattern buffer.

4. Flex Item Configuration

The flex item configuration consists of the following parts:

- header field descriptors:
- next header
- next protocol
- sample to match
- input link descriptors
- output link descriptors

The field descriptors tell the driver and hardware what data should
be extracted from the packet and then control the packet handling
in the flow engine. Besides this, sample fields can be presented
to match with patterns in the flows. Each field is a bit pattern.
It has width, offset from the header beginning, mode of offset
calculation, and offset related parameters.

The next header field is special, no data are actually taken
from the packet, but its offset is used as a pointer to the next
header in the packet, in other words the next header offset
specifies the size of the header being parsed by flex item.

There is one more special field - next protocol, it specifies
where the next protocol identifier is contained and packet data
sampled from this field will be used to determine the next
protocol header type to continue packet parsing. The next
protocol field is like eth_type field in MAC2, or proto field
in IPv4/v6 headers.

The sample fields are used to represent the data be sampled
from the packet and then matched with established flows.

There are several methods supposed to calculate field offset
in runtime depending on configuration and packet content:

- FIELD_MODE_FIXED - fixed offset. The bit offset from
header beginning is permanent and defined by field_base
configuration parameter.

- FIELD_MODE_OFFSET - the field bit offset is extracted
from other header field (indirect offset field). The
resulting field offset to match is calculated from as:

field_base + (*offset_base & offset_mask) << offset_shift

This mode is useful to sample some extra options following
the main header with field containing main header length.
Also, this mode can be used to calculate offset to the
next protocol header, for example - IPv4 header contains
the 4-bit field with IPv4 header length expressed in dwords.
One more example - this mode would allow us to skip GENEVE
header variable length options.

- FIELD_MODE_BITMASK - the field bit offset is extracted
from other header field (indirect offset field), the latter
is considered as bitmask containing some number of one bits,
the resulting field offset to match is calculated as:

field_base + bitcount(*offset_base & offset_mask) << offset_shift

This mode would be useful to skip the GTP header and its
extra options with specified flags.

- FIELD_MODE_DUMMY - dummy field, optionally used for byte
boundary alignment in pattern. Pattern mask and data are
ignored in the match. All configuration parameters besides
field size and offset are ignored.

Note: "*" - means the indirect field offset is calculated
and actual data are extracted from the packet by this
offset (like data are fetched by pointer *p from memory).

The offset mode list can be extended by vendors according to
hardware supported options.

The input link configuration section tells the driver after
what protocols and at what conditions the flex item can follow.
Input link specified the preceding header pattern, for example
for GENEVE it can be UDP item specifying match on destination
port with value 6081. The flex item can follow multiple header
types and multiple input links should be specified. At flow
creation time the item with one of the input link types should
precede the flex item and driver will select the correct flex
item settings, depending on the actual flow pattern.

The output link configuration section tells the driver how
to continue packet parsing after the flex item protocol.
If multiple protocols can follow the flex item header the
flex item should contain the field with the next protocol
identifier and the parsing will be continued depending
on the data contained in this field in the actual packet.

The flex item fields can participate in RSS hash calculation,
the dedicated flag is present in the field description to specify
what fields should be provided for hashing.

5. Flex Item Chaining

If there are multiple protocols supposed to be supported with
flex items in chained fashion - two or more flex items within
the same flow and these ones might be neighbors in the pattern,
it means the flex items are mutual referencing. In this case,
the item that occurred first should be created with empty
output link list or with the list including existing items,
and then the second flex item should be created referencing
the first flex item as input arc, drivers should adjust
the item configuration.

Also, the hardware resources used by flex items to handle
the packet can be limited. If there are multiple flex items
that are supposed to be used within the same flow it would
be nice to provide some hint for the driver that these two
or more flex items are intended for simultaneous usage.
The fields of items should be assigned with hint indices
and these indices from two or more flex items supposed
to be provided within the same flow should be the same
as well. In other words, the field hint index specifies
the group of fields that can be matched simultaneously
within a single flow. If hint indices are specified,
the driver will try to engage not overlapping hardware
resources and provide independent handling of the field
groups with unique indices. If the hint index is zero
the driver assigns resources on its own.

6. Example of New Protocol Handling

Let's suppose we have the requirements to handle the new tunnel
protocol that follows UDP header with destination port 0xFADE
and is followed by MAC header. Let the new protocol header format
be like this:

struct new_protocol_header {
rte_be32 header_length; /* length in dwords, including options */
rte_be32 specific0; /* some protocol data, no intention */
rte_be32 specific1; /* to match in flows on these fields */
rte_be32 crucial; /* data of interest, match is needed */
rte_be32 options[0]; /* optional protocol data, variable length */
};

The supposed flex item configuration:

struct rte_flow_item_flex_field field0 = {
.field_mode = FIELD_MODE_DUMMY, /* Affects match pattern only */
.field_size = 96, /* three dwords from the beginning */
};
struct rte_flow_item_flex_field field1 = {
.field_mode = FIELD_MODE_FIXED,
.field_size = 32, /* Field size is one dword */
.field_base = 96, /* Skip three dwords from the beginning */
};
struct rte_flow_item_udp spec0 = {
.hdr = {
.dst_port = RTE_BE16(0xFADE),
}
};
struct rte_flow_item_udp mask0 = {
.hdr = {
.dst_port = RTE_BE16(0xFFFF),
}
};
struct rte_flow_item_flex_link link0 = {
.item = {
.type = RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_UDP,
.spec = &spec0,
.mask = &mask0,
};

struct rte_flow_item_flex_conf conf = {
.next_header = {
.tunnel = FLEX_TUNNEL_MODE_SINGLE,
.field_mode = FIELD_MODE_OFFSET,
.field_base = 0,
.offset_base = 0,
.offset_mask = 0xFFFFFFFF,
.offset_shift = 2 /* Expressed in dwords, shift left by 2 */
},
.sample = {
&field0,
&field1,
},
.nb_samples = 2,
.input_link[0] = &link0,
.nb_inputs = 1
};

Let's suppose we have created the flex item successfully, and PMD
returned the handle 0x123456789A. We can use the following item
pattern to match the crucial field in the packet with value 0x00112233:

struct new_protocol_header spec_pattern =
{
.crucial = RTE_BE32(0x00112233),
};
struct new_protocol_header mask_pattern =
{
.crucial = RTE_BE32(0xFFFFFFFF),
};
struct rte_flow_item_flex spec_flex = {
.handle = 0x123456789A
.length = sizeiof(struct new_protocol_header),
.pattern = &spec_pattern,
};
struct rte_flow_item_flex mask_flex = {
.length = sizeof(struct new_protocol_header),
.pattern = &mask_pattern,
};
struct rte_flow_item item_to_match = {
.type = RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_FLEX,
.spec = &spec_flex,
.mask = &mask_flex,
};

Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>

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ethdev: support flow elements with variable length

Flow API provides RAW item type for packet patterns of variable
length. The RAW item structure has fixed size members that describe the
variable pa

ethdev: support flow elements with variable length

Flow API provides RAW item type for packet patterns of variable
length. The RAW item structure has fixed size members that describe the
variable pattern length and methods to process it.

There is the new Flow items with variable lengths coming - flex
item. In order to handle this item (and potentially other new ones
with variable pattern length) in flow copy and conversion routines
the helper function is introduced.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Etelson <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>

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ethdev: query proxy port to manage transfer flows

Not all DPDK ports in a given switching domain may have the
privilege to manage "transfer" flows. Add an API to find a
port with sufficient privileg

ethdev: query proxy port to manage transfer flows

Not all DPDK ports in a given switching domain may have the
privilege to manage "transfer" flows. Add an API to find a
port with sufficient privileges by any port in the domain.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Malov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Rybchenko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>

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ethdev: add represented port action to flow API

For use in "transfer" flows. Supposed to send matching traffic to the
entity represented by the given ethdev, at embedded switch level.
Such an entity

ethdev: add represented port action to flow API

For use in "transfer" flows. Supposed to send matching traffic to the
entity represented by the given ethdev, at embedded switch level.
Such an entity can be a network (via a network port), a guest
machine (via a VF) or another ethdev in the same application.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Malov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <[email protected]>

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ethdev: add port representor action to flow API

For use in "transfer" flows. Supposed to send matching traffic to
the given ethdev (to the application), at embedded switch level.

Signed-off-by: Iva

ethdev: add port representor action to flow API

For use in "transfer" flows. Supposed to send matching traffic to
the given ethdev (to the application), at embedded switch level.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Malov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <[email protected]>

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ethdev: add represented port item to flow API

For use in "transfer" flows. Supposed to match traffic entering the
embedded switch from the entity represented by the given ethdev.
Such an entity can

ethdev: add represented port item to flow API

For use in "transfer" flows. Supposed to match traffic entering the
embedded switch from the entity represented by the given ethdev.
Such an entity can be a network (via a network port), a guest
machine (via a VF) or another ethdev in the same application.

Must not be combined with direction attributes.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Malov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <[email protected]>

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ethdev: add port representor item to flow API

For use in "transfer" flows. Supposed to match traffic
entering the embedded switch from the given ethdev.

Must not be combined with direction attribut

ethdev: add port representor item to flow API

For use in "transfer" flows. Supposed to match traffic
entering the embedded switch from the given ethdev.

Must not be combined with direction attributes.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Malov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <[email protected]>

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ethdev: fix integrity flow item

Add integrity item definition to the rte_flow_desc_item array.
The new entry allows to build RTE flow item from a data
stored in rte_flow_item_integrity type.

Fixes:

ethdev: fix integrity flow item

Add integrity item definition to the rte_flow_desc_item array.
The new entry allows to build RTE flow item from a data
stored in rte_flow_item_integrity type.

Fixes: b10a421a1f3b ("ethdev: add packet integrity check flow rules")

Signed-off-by: Gregory Etelson <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>

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ethdev: introduce conntrack flow action and item

This commit introduces the conntrack action and item.

Usually the HW offloading is stateless. For some stateful offloading
like a TCP connection, HW

ethdev: introduce conntrack flow action and item

This commit introduces the conntrack action and item.

Usually the HW offloading is stateless. For some stateful offloading
like a TCP connection, HW module will help provide the ability of a
full offloading w/o SW participation after the connection was
established.

The basic usage is that in the first flow rule the application should
add the conntrack action and jump to the next flow table. In the
following flow rule(s) of the next table, the application should use
the conntrack item to match on the result.

A TCP connection has two directions traffic. To set a conntrack
action context correctly, the information of packets from both
directions are required.

The conntrack action should be created on one ethdev port and supply
the peer ethdev port as a parameter to the action. After context
created, it could only be used between these two ethdev ports
(dual-port mode) or a single port. The application should modify the
action via the API "rte_action_handle_update" only when before using
it to create a flow rule with conntrack for the opposite direction.
This will help the driver to recognize the direction of the flow to
be created, especially in the single-port mode, in which case the
traffic from both directions will go through the same ethdev port
if the application works as an "forwarding engine" but not an end
point. There is no need to call the update interface if the
subsequent flow rules have nothing to be changed.

Query will be supported via "rte_action_handle_query" interface,
about the current packets information and connection status. The
fields query capabilities depends on the HW.

For the packets received during the conntrack setup, it is suggested
to re-inject the packets in order to make sure the conntrack module
works correctly without missing any packet. Only the valid packets
should pass the conntrack, packets with invalid TCP information,
like out of window, or with invalid header, like malformed, should
not pass.

Naming and definition:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/include/uapi/linux/
netfilter/nf_conntrack_tcp.h
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/net/netfilter/
nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c

Other reference:
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec01/invitedtalks/rooij.pdf

Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>

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ethdev: introduce indirect flow action

Right now, rte_flow_shared_action_* APIs are used for some shared
actions, like RSS, count. The shared action should be created before
using it inside a flow.

ethdev: introduce indirect flow action

Right now, rte_flow_shared_action_* APIs are used for some shared
actions, like RSS, count. The shared action should be created before
using it inside a flow. These shared actions sometimes are not
really shared but just some indirect actions decoupled from a flow.

The new functions rte_flow_action_handle_* are added to replace
the current shared functions rte_flow_shared_action_*.

There are two types of flow actions:
1. the direct (normal) actions that could be created and stored
within a flow rule. Such action is tied to its flow rule and
cannot be reused.
2. the indirect action, in the past, named shared_action. It is
created from a direct actioni, like count or rss, and then used
in the flow rules with an object handle. The PMD will take care
of the retrieve from indirect action to the direct action
when it is referenced.

The indirect action is accessed (update / query) w/o any flow rule,
just via the action object handle. For example, when querying or
resetting a counter, it could be done out of any flow using this
counter, but only the handle of the counter action object is
required.
The indirect action object could be shared by different flows or
used by a single flow, depending on the direct action type and
the real-life requirements.
The handle of an indirect action object is opaque and defined in
each driver and possibly different per direct action type.

The old name "shared" is improper in a sense and should be replaced.

Since the APIs are changed from "rte_flow_shared_action*" to the new
"rte_flow_action_handle*", the testpmd application code and command
line interfaces also need to be updated to do the adaption.
The testpmd application user guide is also updated. All the "shared
action" related parts are replaced with "indirect action" to have a
correct explanation.

The parameter of "update" interface is also changed. A general
pointer will replace the rte_flow_action struct pointer due to the
facts:
1. Some action may not support fields updating. In the example of a
counter, the only "update" supported should be the reset. So
passing a rte_flow_action struct pointer is meaningless and
there is even no such corresponding action struct. What's more,
if more than one operations should be supported, for some other
action, such pointer parameter may not meet the need.
2. Some action may need conditional or partial update, the current
parameter will not provide the ability to indicate which part(s)
to update.
For different types of indirect action objects, the pointer could
either be the same of rte_flow_action* struct - in order not to
break the current driver implementation, or some wrapper
structures with bits as masks to indicate which part to be
updated, depending on real needs of the corresponding direct
action. For different direct actions, the structures of indirect
action objects updating will be different.

All the underlayer PMD callbacks will be moved to these new APIs.

The RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SHARED is kept for now in order not to
break the ABI. All the implementations are changed by using
RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_INDIRECT.

Since the APIs are changed from "rte_flow_shared_action*" to the new
"rte_flow_action_handle*" and the "update" interface's 3rd input
parameter is changed to generic pointer, the mlx5 PMD that uses these
APIs needs to do the adaption to the new APIs as well.

Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrey Vesnovaty <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ori Kam <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ajit Khaparde <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>

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lib: remove librte_ prefix from directory names

There is no reason for the DPDK libraries to all have 'librte_' prefix on
the directory names. This prefix makes the directory names longer and also
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lib: remove librte_ prefix from directory names

There is no reason for the DPDK libraries to all have 'librte_' prefix on
the directory names. This prefix makes the directory names longer and also
makes it awkward to add features referring to individual libraries in the
build - should the lib names be specified with or without the prefix.
Therefore, we can just remove the library prefix and use the library's
unique name as the directory name, i.e. 'eal' rather than 'librte_eal'

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <[email protected]>

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