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Ido Schimmel d977e1c8e3 vxlan: Add support for nexthop ID metadata
VXLAN FDB entries can point to FDB nexthop objects. Each such object
includes the IP address(es) of remote VTEP(s) via which the target host
is accessible. Example:

 # ip nexthop add id 1 via 192.0.2.1 fdb
 # ip nexthop add id 2 via 192.0.2.17 fdb
 # ip nexthop add id 1000 group 1/2 fdb
 # bridge fdb add 00:11:22:33:44:55 dev vx0 self static nhid 1000 src_vni 10020

This is useful for EVPN multihoming where a single host can be connected
to multiple VTEPs. The source VTEP will calculate the flow hash of the
skb and forward it towards the IP address of one of the VTEPs member in
the nexthop group.

There are cases where an external entity (e.g., the bridge driver) can
provide not only the tunnel ID (i.e., VNI) of the skb, but also the ID
of the nexthop object via which the skb should be forwarded.

Therefore, in order to support such cases, when the VXLAN device is in
external / collect metadata mode and the tunnel info attached to the skb
is of bridge type, extract the nexthop ID from the tunnel info. If the
ID is valid (i.e., non-zero), forward the skb via the nexthop object
associated with the ID, as if the skb hit an FDB entry associated with
this ID.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2023-07-19 10:53:48 +01:00
arch for-netdev 2023-07-13 19:13:24 -07:00
block block-6.5-2023-07-03 2023-07-03 18:48:38 -07:00
certs KEYS: Add missing function documentation 2023-04-24 16:15:52 +03:00
crypto crypto: algif_hash - Fix race between MORE and non-MORE sends 2023-07-08 22:48:42 +10:00
Documentation tcp: get rid of sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale 2023-07-18 18:41:18 -07:00
drivers vxlan: Add support for nexthop ID metadata 2023-07-19 10:53:48 +01:00
fs Minor cleanups for 6.5: 2023-07-09 09:50:42 -07:00
include ip_tunnels: Add nexthop ID field to ip_tunnel_key 2023-07-19 10:53:48 +01:00
init Kbuild updates for v6.5 2023-07-01 09:24:31 -07:00
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kernel for-netdev 2023-07-13 19:13:24 -07:00
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.mailmap 16 hotfixes. Six are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.4 issues. 2023-07-08 14:30:25 -07:00
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CREDITS - Address -Wmissing-prototype warnings 2023-06-26 16:43:54 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: ASP 2.0 Ethernet driver maintainers 2023-07-17 07:39:04 +01:00
Makefile Linux 6.5-rc1 2023-07-09 13:53:13 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.