flow_dissector: Use IPv6 flow label in flow_dissector
authorTom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Wed, 2 Jul 2014 04:33:01 +0000 (21:33 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 8 Jul 2014 04:14:21 +0000 (21:14 -0700)
This patch implements the receive side to support RFC 6438 which is to
use the flow label as an ECMP hash. If an IPv6 flow label is set
in a packet we can use this as input for computing an L4-hash. There
should be no need to parse any transport headers in this case.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/flow_dissector.c

index 62d1cb624f5366a14c518d933ee7268c99ec54f1..c5f3912dad4c9d1276a964f11d15b76f7d6c29b9 100644 (file)
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ ip:
        case htons(ETH_P_IPV6): {
                const struct ipv6hdr *iph;
                struct ipv6hdr _iph;
+               __be32 flow_label;
+
 ipv6:
                iph = skb_header_pointer(skb, nhoff, sizeof(_iph), &_iph);
                if (!iph)
@@ -89,6 +91,21 @@ ipv6:
                flow->src = (__force __be32)ipv6_addr_hash(&iph->saddr);
                flow->dst = (__force __be32)ipv6_addr_hash(&iph->daddr);
                nhoff += sizeof(struct ipv6hdr);
+
+               flow_label = ip6_flowlabel(iph);
+               if (flow_label) {
+                       /* Awesome, IPv6 packet has a flow label so we can
+                        * use that to represent the ports without any
+                        * further dissection.
+                        */
+                       flow->n_proto = proto;
+                       flow->ip_proto = ip_proto;
+                       flow->ports = flow_label;
+                       flow->thoff = (u16)nhoff;
+
+                       return true;
+               }
+
                break;
        }
        case htons(ETH_P_8021AD):