[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 0/2] app/testpmd implement VXLAN/NVGRE Encap/Decap

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 7/6/2018 7:43 AM, Nelio Laranjeiro wrote:
> This series adds an easy and maintainable configuration version support for
> those two actions for 18.08 by using global variables in testpmd to store the
> necessary information for the tunnel encapsulation.  Those variables are used
> in conjunction of RTE_FLOW_ACTION_{VXLAN,NVGRE}_ENCAP action to create easily
> the action for flows.
> 
> A common way to use it:
> 
>  set vxlan ip-version ipv4 vni 4 udp-src 4 udp-dst 4 ip-src 27.0.0.1
>         ip-dst 128.0.0.1 eth-src 11:11:11:11:11:11 eth-dst 22:22:22:22:22:22
>  flow create 0 ingress pattern end actions vxlan_encap /
>         queue index 0 / end
> 
>  set vxlan-with-vlan ip-version ipv4 vni 4 udp-src 4 udp-dst 4 p-src
>          127.0.0.1 ip-dst 128.0.0.1 vlan-tci 34 eth-src 11:11:11:11:11:11
>          eth-dst 22:22:22:22:22:22
>  flow create 0 ingress pattern end actions vxlan_encap /
>          queue index 0 / end
> 
>  set vxlan ip-version ipv6 vni 4 udp-src 4 udp-dst 4 ip-src ::1
>         ip-dst ::2222 eth-src 11:11:11:11:11:11 eth-dst 22:22:22:22:22:22
>  flow create 0 ingress pattern end actions vxlan_encap /
>          queue index 0 / end
> 
>  set vxlan-with-vlan ip-version ipv6 vni 4 udp-src 4 udp-dst 4
>          ip-src ::1 ip-dst ::2222 vlan-tci 34 eth-src 11:11:11:11:11:11
>          eth-dst 22:22:22:22:22:22
>  flow create 0 ingress pattern end actions vxlan_encap /
>          queue index 0 / end
> 
> This also replace the proposal done by Mohammad Abdul Awal [1] which handles
> in a more complex way for the same work.
> 
> Note this API has already a modification planned for 18.11 [2] thus those
> series should have a limited life for a single release.
> 
> [1] https://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-May/101403.html
> [2] https://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-June/103485.html
> 
> Changes in v9:
> 
> - fix the help for NVGRE.
> 
> Changes in v8:
> 
> - add static tokens in the command line to be user friendly.
> 
> Changes in v7:
> 
> - add missing documentation added in v5 and removed in v6 by mistake.
> 
> Changes in v6:
> 
> - fix compilation under redhat 7.5 with gcc 4.8.5 20150623
> 
> Changes in v5:
> 
> - fix documentation generation.
> - add more explanation on how to generate several encapsulated flows.
> 
> Changes in v4:
> 
> - fix big endian issue on vni and tni.
> - add samples to the documentation.
> - set the VXLAN UDP source port to 0 by default to let the driver generate it
>   from the inner hash as described in the RFC 7348.
> - use default rte flow mask for each item.
> 
> Changes in v3:
> 
> - support VLAN in the outer encapsulation.
> - fix the documentation with missing arguments.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> 
> - add default IPv6 values for NVGRE encapsulation.
> - replace VXLAN to NVGRE in comments concerning NVGRE layer.
> 
> 
> Nelio Laranjeiro (2):
>   app/testpmd: add VXLAN encap/decap support
>   app/testpmd: add NVGRE encap/decap support

Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.