Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 01:49:07PM CEST, j...@mojatatu.com wrote: >On 16-10-13 04:48 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 09:29:57AM CEST, ro...@cumulusnetworks.com wrote: >> > On 10/12/16, 5:41 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> > > From: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> >> > > >[..] >> > >> > we spoke with yotam about this at netdev1.2. and also remember speaking >> > about this on our switchdev calls: >> > Today our driver uses NFLOG to log packets to a netlink socket and hsflowd >> > supported by the sflow >> > people (at http://www.sflow.net/) is capable of reading from a nflog >> > socket. NFLOG has the required netlink >> > attribute markers for packet header/data (which we can possibly extend). >> > We could also add nflog like action >> > in tc if needed. >> > >> > sflow agents like hsflowd are capable of sending packets to an external >> > collector with the required sflow header. >> > Instead of re-inventing a new API for sflow, would be better to >> > standardize/unify on existing mechanisms. >> > >> > Also, this patch series requires a new device to be created which can be >> > avoided if we used >> > existing mechanisms like NFLOG. >> >> When I was first thinking about re-using NFLOG, it seemed like an >> abusal. We need to call it from driver directly, which sounds odd. >> However, since we use sample_packet_pack function to wrap it up, the >> NFLOG is called from the tc action code, it does not look bad. >> Yet still, this has nothing in common with netfilter, only using it's >> log facilities. That is odd. >> > >Sorry, had not seen the code until now; helps me get perspective. >If you are going to require netfilter just so you can do this - it >sounds so wrong (since you already provides a hook for tc offloading >into the switch for other functions).
+1 >Roopa, did you mean eth1 as the new device or did you mean just in >general config requiring a device to be specified or did you mean a new >cpu netdev being needed? I couldnt tell from the patch. You just have to have some netdev to use to funnel the IFE headered sample skbs to userspace. A dummy or a tap. > >> I think that the IFE ways is way more clear and generic and not-abusing. >> However you are right the NFLOG way has advantage of existing user >> component. I'm not sure how to do this :( > >Can you do NFLOG to user space without requiring netfilter compiled in? >One advantage with IFE is it is a wire protocol - so you can have the >sflow collector/aggregator sit on a different machine (for small cpu >switches makes sense). So modifying the sflow daemon to accept IFE >formatted data is an interesting! Agreed. For me, that looks like the correct way to do this. > >cheers, >jamal
