[net-next,6/7] 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>
---
 include/net/flow_keys.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 21:27 -0700, Tom Herbert wrote:
> 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>
> ---
>  include/net/flow_keys.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/net/flow_keys.h b/include/net/flow_keys.h
> index dc8fd81..f2610ad 100644
> --- a/include/net/flow_keys.h
> +++ b/include/net/flow_keys.h
> @@ -42,4 +42,23 @@ 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 used to hold a digest of the full flow keys. This is a larger
> + * "hash" of a connection 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];
> +};
> +
> +static inline void make_flow_keys_digest(struct flow_keys_digest *digest,
> +					 struct flow_keys *flow)

const struct flow_keys *flow

> +{

Maybe document that src,dst,ports must be in first 16 bytes of
flows_keys

Some BUILD_BUG_ON() might do the trick

> +	memcpy(&digest->data, flow, FLOW_KEYS_DIGEST_LEN);
> +}
> +
>  #endif


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