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author | Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> | 2015-05-01 21:30:17 +0300 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-05-04 07:09:09 +0300 |
commit | 2f59e1ebaa7f762c8825871b5486b5f5b4fa952f (patch) | |
tree | 431a21930a7976182e62c7db270b69d564041b82 /include/net/flow_keys.h | |
parent | ada1dba04c273dbabefff6a9a9f8c2bdcb61a858 (diff) | |
download | linux-2f59e1ebaa7f762c8825871b5486b5f5b4fa952f.tar.xz |
net: Add flow_keys digest
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 <tom@herbertland.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/flow_keys.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/net/flow_keys.h | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/flow_keys.h b/include/net/flow_keys.h index dc8fd81412bf..6d6ef626811a 100644 --- a/include/net/flow_keys.h +++ b/include/net/flow_keys.h @@ -42,4 +42,20 @@ 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 is used to hold a digest of the full flow keys. This is a + * larger "hash" of a flow 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]; +}; + +void make_flow_keys_digest(struct flow_keys_digest *digest, + const struct flow_keys *flow); + #endif |