From patchwork Sat Aug 12 18:09:24 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Andrea Mayer X-Patchwork-Id: 713234 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E4CC0015E for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2023 18:10:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229612AbjHLSKX (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Aug 2023 14:10:23 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:42030 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229446AbjHLSKW (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Aug 2023 14:10:22 -0400 Received: from smtp.uniroma2.it (smtp.uniroma2.it [160.80.6.23]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2F5D91704; Sat, 12 Aug 2023 11:10:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([160.80.103.126]) by smtp-2015.uniroma2.it (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-8) with ESMTP id 37CI9v8r016225 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NOT); Sat, 12 Aug 2023 20:09:57 +0200 From: Andrea Mayer To: "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , David Ahern , Shuah Khan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Cc: Stefano Salsano , Paolo Lungaroni , Ahmed Abdelsalam , Hangbin Liu , Andrea Mayer Subject: [net-next v2 0/2] seg6: add NEXT-C-SID support for SRv6 End.X behavior Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2023 20:09:24 +0200 Message-Id: <20230812180926.16689-1-andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.20.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.100.0 at smtp-2015 X-Virus-Status: Clean Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org In the Segment Routing (SR) architecture a list of instructions, called segments, can be added to the packet headers to influence the forwarding and processing of the packets in an SR enabled network. Considering the Segment Routing over IPv6 data plane (SRv6) [1], the segment identifiers (SIDs) are IPv6 addresses (128 bits) and the segment list (SID List) is carried in the Segment Routing Header (SRH). A segment may correspond to a "behavior" that is executed by a node when the packet is received. The Linux kernel currently supports a large subset of the behaviors described in [2] (e.g., End, End.X, End.T and so on). In some SRv6 scenarios, the number of segments carried by the SID List may increase dramatically, reducing the MTU (Maximum Transfer Unit) size and/or limiting the processing power of legacy hardware devices (due to longer IPv6 headers). The NEXT-C-SID mechanism [3] extends the SRv6 architecture by providing several ways to efficiently represent the SID List. By leveraging the NEXT-C-SID, it is possible to encode several SRv6 segments within a single 128 bit SID address (also referenced as Compressed SID Container). In this way, the length of the SID List can be drastically reduced. The NEXT-C-SID mechanism is built upon the "flavors" framework defined in [2]. This framework is already supported by the Linux SRv6 subsystem and is used to modify and/or extend a subset of existing behaviors. In this patchset, we extend the SRv6 End.X behavior in order to support the NEXT-C-SID mechanism. In details, the patchset is made of: - patch 1/2: add NEXT-C-SID support for SRv6 End.X behavior; - patch 2/2: add selftest for NEXT-C-SID in SRv6 End.X behavior. Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu Reviewed-by: David Ahern