mpls: flow-based multipath selection

Change the selection of a multipath route to use a flow-based
hash. This more suitable for traffic sensitive to reordering within a
flow (e.g. TCP, L2VPN) and whilst still allowing a good distribution
of traffic given enough flows.

Selection of the path for a multipath route is done using a hash of:
1. Label stack up to MAX_MP_SELECT_LABELS labels or up to and
   including entropy label, whichever is first.
2. 3-tuple of (L3 src, L3 dst, proto) from IPv4/IPv6 header in MPLS
   payload, if present.

Naturally, a 5-tuple hash using L4 information in addition would be
possible and be better in some scenarios, but there is a tradeoff
between looking deeper into the packet to achieve good distribution,
and packet forwarding performance, and I have erred on the side of the
latter as the default.

Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com>
Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 83 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
index ee3097a..cc972e3 100644
--- a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
+++ b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@
 #include <net/nexthop.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 
+/* Maximum number of labels to look ahead at when selecting a path of
+ * a multipath route
+ */
+#define MAX_MP_SELECT_LABELS 4
+
 static int zero = 0;
 static int label_limit = (1 << 20) - 1;
 
@@ -77,10 +82,78 @@ bool mpls_pkt_too_big(const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int mtu)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mpls_pkt_too_big);
 
-static struct mpls_nh *mpls_select_multipath(struct mpls_route *rt)
+static struct mpls_nh *mpls_select_multipath(struct mpls_route *rt,
+					     struct sk_buff *skb, bool bos)
 {
-	/* assume single nexthop for now */
-	return &rt->rt_nh[0];
+	struct mpls_entry_decoded dec;
+	struct mpls_shim_hdr *hdr;
+	bool eli_seen = false;
+	int label_index;
+	int nh_index = 0;
+	u32 hash = 0;
+
+	/* No need to look further into packet if there's only
+	 * one path
+	 */
+	if (rt->rt_nhn == 1)
+		goto out;
+
+	for (label_index = 0; label_index < MAX_MP_SELECT_LABELS && !bos;
+	     label_index++) {
+		if (!pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(*hdr) * label_index))
+			break;
+
+		/* Read and decode the current label */
+		hdr = mpls_hdr(skb) + label_index;
+		dec = mpls_entry_decode(hdr);
+
+		/* RFC6790 - reserved labels MUST NOT be used as keys
+		 * for the load-balancing function
+		 */
+		if (likely(dec.label >= MPLS_LABEL_FIRST_UNRESERVED)) {
+			hash = jhash_1word(dec.label, hash);
+
+			/* The entropy label follows the entropy label
+			 * indicator, so this means that the entropy
+			 * label was just added to the hash - no need to
+			 * go any deeper either in the label stack or in the
+			 * payload
+			 */
+			if (eli_seen)
+				break;
+		} else if (dec.label == MPLS_LABEL_ENTROPY) {
+			eli_seen = true;
+		}
+
+		bos = dec.bos;
+		if (bos && pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(*hdr) * label_index +
+					 sizeof(struct iphdr))) {
+			const struct iphdr *v4hdr;
+
+			v4hdr = (const struct iphdr *)(mpls_hdr(skb) +
+						       label_index);
+			if (v4hdr->version == 4) {
+				hash = jhash_3words(ntohl(v4hdr->saddr),
+						    ntohl(v4hdr->daddr),
+						    v4hdr->protocol, hash);
+			} else if (v4hdr->version == 6 &&
+				pskb_may_pull(skb, sizeof(*hdr) * label_index +
+					      sizeof(struct ipv6hdr))) {
+				const struct ipv6hdr *v6hdr;
+
+				v6hdr = (const struct ipv6hdr *)(mpls_hdr(skb) +
+								label_index);
+
+				hash = __ipv6_addr_jhash(&v6hdr->saddr, hash);
+				hash = __ipv6_addr_jhash(&v6hdr->daddr, hash);
+				hash = jhash_1word(v6hdr->nexthdr, hash);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	nh_index = hash % rt->rt_nhn;
+out:
+	return &rt->rt_nh[nh_index];
 }
 
 static bool mpls_egress(struct mpls_route *rt, struct sk_buff *skb,
@@ -175,7 +248,7 @@ static int mpls_forward(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 	if (!rt)
 		goto drop;
 
-	nh = mpls_select_multipath(rt);
+	nh = mpls_select_multipath(rt, skb, dec.bos);
 	if (!nh)
 		goto drop;
 
@@ -541,6 +614,12 @@ static int mpls_nh_build_multi(struct mpls_route_config *cfg,
 		if (!rtnh_ok(rtnh, remaining))
 			goto errout;
 
+		/* neither weighted multipath nor any flags
+		 * are supported
+		 */
+		if (rtnh->rtnh_hops || rtnh->rtnh_flags)
+			goto errout;
+
 		attrlen = rtnh_attrlen(rtnh);
 		if (attrlen > 0) {
 			struct nlattr *attrs = rtnh_attrs(rtnh);