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Date:   Wed, 26 Jul 2023 03:44:48 +0300
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
To:     Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
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        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
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        Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/1] net: dsa: microchip: Add partial ACL
 support for ksz9477 switches
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On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 04:02:24PM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> This patch adds partial Access Control List (ACL) support for the
> ksz9477 family of switches. ACLs enable filtering of incoming layer 2
> MAC, layer 3 IP, and layer 4 TCP/UDP packets on each port. They provide
> additional capabilities for filtering routed network protocols and can
> take precedence over other forwarding functions.
> 
> ACLs can filter ingress traffic based on header fields such as
> source/destination MAC address, EtherType, IPv4 address, IPv4 protocol,
> UDP/TCP ports, and TCP flags. The ACL is an ordered list of up to 16
> access control rules programmed into the ACL Table. Each entry specifies
> a set of matching conditions and action rules for controlling packet
> forwarding and priority.
> 
> The ACL also implements a count function, generating an interrupt
> instead of a forwarding action. It can be used as a watchdog timer or an
> event counter. The ACL consists of three parts: matching rules, action
> rules, and processing entries. Multiple match conditions can be either
> AND'ed or OR'ed together.
> 
> This patch introduces support for a subset of the available ACL
> functionality, specifically layer 2 matching and prioritization of
> matched packets. For example:
> 
> tc qdisc add dev lan2 clsact
> tc filter add dev lan2 ingress protocol 0x88f7 flower action skbedit prio 7
> 
> tc qdisc add dev lan1 clsact
> tc filter add dev lan1 ingress protocol 0x88f7 flower action skbedit prio 7
> 
> The hardware offloading implementation was benchmarked against a
> configuration without hardware offloading. This latter setup relied on a
> software-based Linux bridge. No noticeable differences were observed
> between the two configurations. Here is an example of software-based
> test:
> 
> ip l s dev enu1u1 up
> ip l s dev enu1u2 up
> ip l s dev enu1u4 up
> ethtool -A enu1u1 autoneg off rx off tx off
> ethtool -A enu1u2 autoneg off rx off tx off
> ethtool -A enu1u4 autoneg off rx off tx off
> ip l a name br0 type bridge
> ip l s dev br0 up
> ip l s enu1u1 master br0
> ip l s enu1u2 master br0
> ip l s enu1u4 master br0
> 
> tc qdisc add dev enu1u1 root handle 1:  ets strict 4 priomap 3 3 2 2 1 1 0 0
> tc qdisc add dev enu1u4 root handle 1:  ets strict 4 priomap 3 3 2 2 1 1 0 0
> tc qdisc add dev enu1u2 root handle 1:  ets strict 4 priomap 3 3 2 2 1 1 0 0
> 
> tc qdisc add dev enu1u1 clsact
> tc filter add dev enu1u1 ingress protocol 0x0800  flower action skbedit prio 7
> 
> tc qdisc add dev enu1u4 clsact
> tc filter add dev enu1u4 ingress protocol 0x0800  flower action skbedit prio 0
> 
> On a system attached to the port enu1u2 I run two iperf3 server
> instances:
> iperf3 -s -p 5210 &
> iperf3 -s -p 5211 &
> 
> On systems attached to enu1u4 and enu1u1 I run:
> iperf3 -u -c  172.17.0.1 -p 5210 -b100M  -l1472 -t100
> and
> iperf3 -u -c  172.17.0.1 -p 5211 -b100M  -l1472 -t100
> 
> As a result, IP traffic on port enu1u1 will be prioritized and take
> precedence over IP traffic on port enu1u4
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
> ---

Sorry for the delay. I will review this patch (and other pending DSA
patches) tomorrow.