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sch_cake: Permit use of connmarks as tin classifiers

Add flag 'FWMARK' to enable use of firewall connmarks as tin selector. The connmark (skbuff->mark) needs to be in the range 1->tin_cnt ie. for diffserv3 the mark needs to be 1->3. Background Typically CAKE uses DSCP as the basis for tin selection. DSCP values are relatively easily changed as part of the egress path, usually with iptables & the mangle table, ingress is more challenging. CAKE is often used on the WAN interface of a residential gateway where passthrough of DSCP from the ISP is either missing or set to unhelpful values thus use of ingress DSCP values for tin selection isn't helpful in that environment. An approach to solving the ingress tin selection problem is to use CAKE's understanding of tc filters. Naive tc filters could match on source/destination port numbers and force tin selection that way, but multiple filters don't scale particularly well as each filter must be traversed whether it matches or not. e.g. a simple example to map 3 firewall marks to tins: MAJOR=$( tc qdisc show dev $DEV | head -1 | awk '{print $3}' ) tc filter add dev $DEV parent $MAJOR protocol all handle 0x01 fw action skbedit priority ${MAJOR}1 tc filter add dev $DEV parent $MAJOR protocol all handle 0x02 fw action skbedit priority ${MAJOR}2 tc filter add dev $DEV parent $MAJOR protocol all handle 0x03 fw action skbedit priority ${MAJOR}3 Another option is to use eBPF cls_act with tc filters e.g. MAJOR=$( tc qdisc show dev $DEV | head -1 | awk '{print $3}' ) tc filter add dev $DEV parent $MAJOR bpf da obj my-bpf-fwmark-to-class.o This has the disadvantages of a) needing someone to write & maintain the bpf program, b) a bpf toolchain to compile it and c) needing to hardcode the major number in the bpf program so it matches the cake instance (or forcing the cake instance to a particular major number) since the major number cannot be passed to the bpf program via tc command line. As already hinted at by the previous examples, it would be helpful to associate tins with something that survives the Internet path and ideally allows tin selection on both egress and ingress. Netfilter's conntrack permits setting an identifying mark on a connection which can also be restored to an ingress packet with tc action connmark e.g. tc filter add dev eth0 parent ffff: protocol all prio 10 u32 \ match u32 0 0 flowid 1:1 action connmark action mirred egress redirect dev ifb1 Since tc's connmark action has restored any connmark into skb->mark, any of the previous solutions are based upon it and in one form or another copy that mark to the skb->priority field where again CAKE picks this up. This change cuts out at least one of the (less intuitive & non-scalable) middlemen and permit direct access to skb->mark.

Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant committed 7 years ago

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include/uapi/linux/pkt_sched.h+1−0
@@ -1021,6 +1021,7 @@ enum { · 1020 unmodified lines
1021 TCA_CAKE_INGRESS,1021 TCA_CAKE_INGRESS,
1022 TCA_CAKE_ACK_FILTER,1022 TCA_CAKE_ACK_FILTER,
1023 TCA_CAKE_SPLIT_GSO,1023 TCA_CAKE_SPLIT_GSO,
1024 TCA_CAKE_FWMARK,
1024 __TCA_CAKE_MAX1025 __TCA_CAKE_MAX
1025};1026};
1026#define TCA_CAKE_MAX (__TCA_CAKE_MAX - 1)1027#define TCA_CAKE_MAX (__TCA_CAKE_MAX - 1)