Some users of flow keys (well just sch_choke now) need to pass
flow_keys in skbuff cb, and use them for exact comparisons of flows
so that skb->hash is not sufficient. In order to increase size of
the flow_keys structure, we introduce another structure for
the purpose of passing flow keys in skbuff cb. We limit this structure
to sixteen bytes, and we will technically treat this as a digest of
flow_keys struct hence its name flow_keys_digest. In the first
incaranation we just copy the flow_keys structure up to 16 bytes--
this is the same information previously passed in the cb. In the
future, we'll adapt this for larger flow_keys and could use something
like SHA-1 over the whole flow_keys to improve the quality of the
digest.
Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <t...@herbertland.com>
---
include/net/flow_keys.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/net/flow_keys.h b/include/net/flow_keys.h
index dc8fd81..f2610ad 100644
--- a/include/net/flow_keys.h
+++ b/include/net/flow_keys.h
@@ -42,4 +42,23 @@ static inline __be32 skb_flow_get_ports(const struct sk_buff
*skb, int thoff, u8
u32 flow_hash_from_keys(struct flow_keys *keys);
unsigned int flow_get_hlen(const unsigned char *data, unsigned int max_len,
__be16 protocol);
+
+/* struct flow_keys_digest:
+ *
+ * This structure used to hold a digest of the full flow keys. This is a larger
+ * "hash" of a connection to allow definitively matching specific flows where
+ * the 32 bit skb_hash is not large enough. The size is limited to 16 bytes
+ * so that it can by used in CB of skb (see sch_choke for an example).
+ */
+#define FLOW_KEYS_DIGEST_LEN 16
+struct flow_keys_digest {
+ u8 data[FLOW_KEYS_DIGEST_LEN];
+};
+
+static inline void make_flow_keys_digest(struct flow_keys_digest *digest,
+ struct flow_keys *flow)
+{
+ memcpy(&digest->data, flow, FLOW_KEYS_DIGEST_LEN);
+}
+
#endif
--
1.8.1
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