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(1) dpdk: rte_flow template rules and a model of how a NIC matches them - #2030
The dpdk side of offloading policy into the NIC (mlx5 hardware steering, dv_flow_en=2):
The rte_flow template API (flow::template): pattern and actions templates, tables, meter profiles and meters
(METER_MARK), rules, per-rule meters and jumps, RSS, MARK, in-place action updates; synchronous facade over one
flow queue, operations tagged so a late completion is never credited to another. Borrowed handles for code that
builds and holds a rule set in one place (a rule can't outlive its table or meters, compile_fail doctests);
shared (Rc) handles that own their dependencies for rule sets replaced piecemeal. A rule knows its table and
port: updating it through another table, or mixing ports, is a typed error. Tables are destroyed explicitly.
New match items: VLAN presence, unfragmented, TCP flags.
flow::model: interprets the very spec/mask structs the PMD reads against frame bytes, with the parser
behaviour qualified on mlx5 (IPv6 extension headers walked, C-tags only as VLANs, tags per level, nothing parsed
past a later fragment). Used by nic-offload as a test oracle, and held to the net parser by a property test.
(The integrity verdicts moved to (4) nic-offload: drop corrupt VXLAN packets in the NIC #2033.)
No behaviour change for existing users. Tested on a BlueField-3 (via the later PRs' qualification).
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Walkthrough
The PR adds DPDK flow-template APIs, an mlx5 NIC-offload pipeline, and dataplane integration for policy compilation and hardware rule reconciliation. It also changes hugepage reservation and RX descriptor selection, and adds supporting policy, rule-overlap, and reconciliation APIs.
Changes: Flow templates and packet modeling
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Flow item lowering and packet model dpdk/src/flow/{builder.rs,item.rs,mod.rs,model.rs,pattern.rs}
Flow items use shared lowering. Pattern matches support VLAN presence, fragment state, and TCP flags. A software model produces possible frame views and evaluates patterns against them.
Template patterns, actions, and context dpdk/src/flow/template/{mod.rs,pattern.rs,actions.rs,meter.rs,lifetime.rs}, dpdk/src/dev.rs
The template API adds typed pattern builders, actions, meter profiles, meters, queue ownership, and operation completion. Device lifecycle state tracks template rules separately.
Template tables, rules, and shared handles dpdk/src/flow/template/{table.rs,shared.rs,table/tests.rs,testing.rs}, dpdk/Cargo.toml
Tables manage asynchronous rule creation, updates, counters, and destruction. Shared handles retain dependencies. Tests and a thread-local PMD fixture cover failures and completion outcomes.
The crate compiles supported ACL, routing, and rate-limit rules into a backend-neutral program. Unsupported or overlapping rules are recorded for software enforcement.
mlx5 plan and outcome model nic-offload/src/{mlx5/mod.rs,model.rs,meters.rs}
The mlx5 backend lowers programs into flow tables, rules, and meters. The model evaluates parser views, meter colors, and group transitions.
Hardware installation and reconciliation nic-offload/src/mlx5/install.rs, nic-offload/src/mlx5/install/tests.rs
The port runtime installs and reconciles plans, detaches changed generations, and tracks counters. Tests cover refusals and uncertain NIC state.
Differential and hardware qualification nic-offload/src/{differential.rs,qualify.rs}, nic-offload/examples/install_probe.rs
Tests compare NIC behavior with software classification and meter behavior. Hardware tests exercise rule installation and reconciliation under traffic. The example probes IPv4 and IPv6 rule shapes.
Offload configuration and dataplane integration
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Configuration and policy data access config/src/converters/k8s/config/*, config/src/external/overlay/*, acl-filter/src/*, flow-filter/src/*, rate-limit/src/*, policer/src/*
Gateway configuration carries an offload-disable flag. ACL, flow-filter, rate-limit, and policer APIs expose data used to compile offload policy.
Device setup and offload workers dataplane/src/{drivers/dpdk/*,packet_processor/mod.rs,runtime.rs}, dpdk/src/{dev/probe.rs,socket.rs}
The runtime probes PCI devices with optional driver arguments and retries without them after failure. Ports with configured template resources start offload workers. DPDK heap usage is exposed as per-node metrics.
Hugepage and RX descriptor selection
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Reservation and initialization args/src/lib.rs, init/src/{hugepages.rs,main.rs}
Initialization preserves explicit receive-descriptor settings and selects defaults based on available memory, optional node allotments, and supported ring sizes.
Supporting APIs and utilities
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Predicate overlap API match-action/src/{predicate.rs,lib.rs}, match-action-derive/src/lib.rs
Predicate types implement overlap checks, and the derive macro generates rule-level overlap methods. Property tests check overlap behavior.
The rekon crate exposes synchronous observe, create, update, remove, and reconcile traits with lifetime-indexed associated types.
Runtime and test utilities routing/src/cli/handler.rs, dpdk/src/{dev/probe.rs,socket.rs,power/tests.rs}, Cargo.toml, dpdk/Cargo.toml
PCI probing accepts validated driver arguments. The FRR control path waits for applied configuration with a bounded retry loop. DPDK adds heap checks and idle-test diagnostics.
Possibly related issues
githedgehog/dataplane#2034: The issue requests hardware qualification of the flow model, including VLAN, fragment, and IPv6 extension-header cases. This PR adds the model and qualification coverage; CI automation and recorded fixtures remain separate work.
Possibly related PRs
githedgehog/dataplane#2014: Its net parser changes are part of the parser behavior compared against the new flow model.
githedgehog/dataplane#1907: It adds shared software meter behavior used for comparison with the NIC meter model.
githedgehog/dataplane#1967: It adds TCP-flag constraints at the policy layer, related to this PR’s TCP-flag flow matching.
Suggested reviewers:qmonnet, mvachhar
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 10ec4
Configured offloads may be lost, qualification may hang or misdiagnose failures, and stale hardware state may be reported as successfully removed; these issues should be resolved before merge.
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🤖 AI-drafted (Claude) on behalf of @mvachhar, reviewed by him before posting.
Requesting changes for two soundness holes in the safe template API (inline on table.rs). Safe callers can make the NIC use freed or out-of-range driver state. The problem shows up in the NIC rather than in RAM, but it's the same class of bug. The overall design is good: borrowed handles that let the compiler enforce destroy order, Rc handles for generations, and a synchronous facade over one queue.
Must fix:
TemplateTable::update doesn't tie the new meters' lifetime to the rule.
update doesn't check that the rule belongs to the table it's called on, and SharedTable::update has the same gap.
Please add compile_fail doctests for "a rule can't outlive its table or meters" (including through update), so the type-level guarantees are locked in.
Should fix:
Cross-port use isn't rejected. Templates, meter handles and rules each carry a port, but nothing compares it with the context or table they're used with. On mlx5, a meter handle from another port selects the wrong meter. A cheap port check with a typed error would close this.
After a Timeout, complete() stays out of sync. With null user_data, a late completion is credited to the next operation, and every one after that is off by one (mod.rs:350-372). Tag operations with a sequence number, or poison the context after a timeout.
The model is the oracle for #2032, so its accuracy matters:
An 802.1ad S-tag (0x88a8) is treated as matching has_vlan/VLAN items, but mlx5 HWS only matches C-tags (model.rs:54; mlx5dr_definer_eth_first_vlan_q_set).
QinQ and per-level tagging are modelled too strictly: one elide_vlan flag covers the whole frame, inner Ethernet included (model.rs:125).
The first-fragment l4_csum_ok verdict applies to every protocol, not just TCP/UDP (model.rs:263).
The model's riskiest logic is barely tested. The verdict logic (model.rs:145-341) has no tests in this PR, and the only model property test checks that random bytes don't panic. Please add a property test comparing views/verdicts with the net parser on generated legal frames (QinQ, IPv6 extension chains, fragments, TCP flags).
Bad devargs are reported as a driver EINVAL (probe.rs:65-69). They should have their own ProbeError variant.
Notes:
A failed destroy leaks the table, templates and meters as their borrows end. That deserves a sentence in the docs.
IntegrityMatch::outer/inner(bits: u64) accepts bits mlx5 rejects; a typed flag set would prevent that.
Mark(0) gets mask 0 (actions.rs:194); use u32::MAX for consistency.
Please also remove the AI slop before this leaves draft (examples inline):
comments that tell the story of how something was found;
parentheticals about code elsewhere;
comments that pack many values into one line;
docs that repeat the commit message or point at tests in later PRs.
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🤖 AI-drafted (Claude) on behalf of @mvachhar, reviewed by him before posting.
Must fix (soundness).rule: &mut TemplateRule<'_> and args: &[RuleArg<'_, D>] have unrelated lifetimes, so the new meters only need to live until update returns, while the installed rule keeps using them. This compiles:
letmut rule = table.insert(0,&pattern,0,&[RuleArg::Meter(&m1)])?;{let m2 = flows.meter(&profile)?;
table.update(&mut rule,0,&[RuleArg::Meter(&m2)])?;}// m2 dropped: its METER_MARK is destroyed while `rule` still uses it
mlx5's METER_MARK destroy has no in-use check (mlx5_flow_hw.c:13168-13195). It disables the meter and frees its pool slot, so the live rule meters against a freed slot, and later against whichever meter reuses it.
Fix: pub fn update<'r>(&self, rule: &mut TemplateRule<'r>, …, args: &[RuleArg<'r, D>]), plus a compile_fail doctest for the case above.
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🤖 AI-drafted (Claude) on behalf of @mvachhar, reviewed by him before posting.
Must fix (soundness). A rule carries no table identity, and update checks actions_template against this table's templates (:217-224). But rte_flow_async_actions_update only gets the rule pointer, and mlx5 indexes the rule's own table (mlx5_flow_hw.c:4417-4429, bounds-checked only with mlx5_fp_debug_enabled()). So with no unsafe in the caller:
table_a.update(&mut rule_from_b,2,&[])?;// A has 3 actions templates, B has 1
reads table_b->ats[2] out of bounds in the driver. The // SAFETY: comment at :230 ("of this table") states this assumption but nothing enforces it.
Fix: store the table's identity (its raw pointer, say) in the rule and check it with a typed error, or make update a method on the rule so it can only use its own table.
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🤖 AI-drafted (Claude) on behalf of @mvachhar, reviewed by him before posting.
Same gap as TemplateTable::update: a SharedRule from any other SharedTable with the same 't/D is accepted, and mlx5 then indexes that rule's own table with this table's template index. (The meter-lifetime half doesn't apply here, since SharedArg owns its meters.)
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🤖 AI-drafted (Claude) on behalf of @mvachhar, reviewed by him before posting.
Slop: the second half tells the story of a crash during development (…crashed in mlx5_aso_poll_cq_mtr_hws while another thread…). Please keep only the reason: "use the context's queue; under HWS mlx5 serves synchronous indirect actions from an internal queue shared by the whole port".
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🤖 AI-drafted (Claude) on behalf of @mvachhar, reviewed by him before posting.
Slop: the rule list is worth keeping, but this doc repeats the commit message and cites integrity_truth_table, a test in a later PR. Please trim it to the rules and drop the forward reference (or point to it once it lands).
🤖 Posted by Claude on behalf of Daniel Noland (daniel-noland).
Thanks. The stack is force-pushed with the rework: each item below is in this PR now.
Must 1 (update lifetimes):update<'r>(&self, rule: &mut TemplateRule<'r>, .., args: &[RuleArg<'r, D>]), with compile_fail doctests for a rule outliving its table, its meter, and a meter given through update (your example).
Must 2 (rule identity): a rule records its table; update through another table is TemplateError::ForeignRule, for SharedTable::update too.
Cross-port: tables, insert/update arguments and Meter::new check the port: TemplateError::OtherPort.
Timeout desync: each operation carries a sequence tag in user_data, and complete() skips completions with another tag.
Model:
0x88a8 is a service tag, not a VLAN;
tags are per level (outer and inner Ethernet each with and without tag elision);
the extension chain walk stops at a later fragment.
Property testa_view_agrees_with_the_net_parser, against net's ShapedHeaders (QinQ, IPv6 extension chains, fragments, TCP flags). Long runs found two test-side edge cases, both fixed in the test: a later IPv6 fragment, and extension chains net cuts short while the model walks on. About 7.5M cases clean since.
Devargs:ProbeError::InvalidDevargs.
Notes: the destroy-failure leak is documented; Mark(0)'s mask is u32::MAX.
Integrity verdicts (l4_csum_ok on every protocol, typed IntegrityMatch, verdict tests, the model.rs:171 and :295 comments): the integrity commits moved out of this PR into (4) nic-offload: drop corrupt VXLAN packets in the NIC #2033. That PR is on hold: on a ConnectX-7, validation dropped valid large TCP, cause unknown. These items get done there when it resumes.
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🤖 AI-drafted (Claude) on behalf of @mvachhar, reviewed by him before posting.
Thanks for the quick rework. I checked it at 7b0b92af.
Verified:
Both must-fixes, with compile_fail doctests that fail for the right reason (E0597).
The rule-identity check before the FFI call.
OtherPort checks; tagged completions; InvalidDevargs; the Mark(0) mask; the destroy-leak docs.
The S-tag and per-level VLAN model fixes, and a_view_agrees_with_the_net_parser, which checks the right direction.
The slop is removed, and the integrity code has moved to #2033.
Still requesting changes for one new problem from the rework.
Must fix: TemplateFlows::flush also destroys the port's classic rules (inline at mod.rs:387).
Under HWS, mlx5_flow_list_flush (mlx5_flow.c:8143-8156) clears the template rules and then destroys every synchronous rte_flow_create rule on the port. That includes the control-plane steering rules in dataplane/src/drivers/dpdk/classes.rs (BGP/BFD/ARP/LLDP → control queue).
Those FlowRules don't know about the flush. So:
control traffic silently loses its steering, while classes.rs still believes the rules are installed and the data workers won't divert it;
when the FlowRules drop, they call rte_flow_destroy on freed driver objects, a use-after-free from safe code.
mlx5_flow_flush also always returns 0 (:8790-8795), so a partial failure bumps the epoch, and handles skip destroying rules that are still in the NIC.
I'd drop flush from the API, or at least never use it while classic rules exist on the port. See #2032 for a way to make the offload unreachable without it.
Should fix:
Operation tags repeat across contexts.last_op starts at 0 in each new TemplateFlows (mod.rs:263). After a timeout, a recreated context can match the old context's stale completions. Keep the counter in the device's template state, or drain the queue when a context is created or dropped.
A timed-out shared update doesn't keep the new meters.SharedTable::update returns early on ? before rule._meters = meters (shared.rs:223-225). If the NIC applies the update late, the rule uses meters the caller may already have destroyed. On a timeout, keep both the old and the new meters.
Notes:
has_vlan=0 on an S-tagged frame: the model says it matches, but HWS compiles it to STE_NO_VLAN, which an SVLAN qualifier doesn't satisfy, and a_service_tag_is_not_a_vlan (model.rs:603) asserts the model's result. It's the safe direction, but the doc calls has_vlan exact.
Model test coverage: the property test doesn't cover VXLAN or inner headers yet.
Commit placement:chore: Bump fabric to v0.143.0 (b00a2b4) isn't used by #2030 or #2031. It serves #2032's gateway annotation, so it belongs there, or in its own PR.
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🤖 AI-drafted (Claude) on behalf of @mvachhar, reviewed by him before posting.
Must fix: on mlx5 HWS, rte_flow_flush also destroys every synchronous rule on the port (mlx5_flow_list_flush, mlx5_flow.c:8143-8156), including the control-plane steering in classes.rs. Their FlowRule handles then drop with rte_flow_destroy on freed objects, and control traffic loses its steering silently. Also, mlx5_flow_flush always returns 0 (:8790-8795), so this bool doesn't mean everything was removed. Please remove it, or make it unusable while classic rules exist.
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🤖 AI-drafted (Claude) on behalf of @mvachhar, reviewed by him before posting.
Tags restart at 0 in each context. After a timeout, a new context on the same port can match the old one's late completions. Keep the counter in the port's template state, or drain the queue on create or drop.
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On a Timeout this ? returns before rule._meters = meters, so if the NIC applies the update later, the rule references meters the caller may drop and destroy. Keep the new meters too when the outcome is unknown.
Operation tags live in the port's template state (PortTemplates::last_op), so a new context never reuses an old one's tags.
Timed-out shared update: on Timeout / OperationFailed the rule keeps the new meters as well as the old ones.
has_vlan: the model classifies the first tag as none, customer or service, as HWS does (mlx5dr_definer_eth_first_vlan_q_set). has_vlan set matches a customer tag only, unset no tag only, so an S-tagged frame matches neither; a_service_tag_is_not_a_vlan asserts that now.
Model test coverage of VXLAN and inner headers: not yet, noted.
🤖 Written by Claude on behalf of Daniel Noland (daniel-noland).
A follow-up after round 2. While checking the stack, we found more ways an operation whose outcome is unknown could free state the NIC still uses. The fixes are pushed as one new commit in #2030 and two new commits at the top of #2032. Everything is still a draft.
#2030: fix(dpdk): preserve template dependencies after uncertain operations (new)
A rule's borrows of its table and meters end when its handle is dropped or mem::forget'd. That isn't when the NIC lets go of them. After a timeout, or a push/pull error once the operation was enqueued, safe code could still destroy a meter, table, template or meter profile that a live rule references.
Each native object now counts its native dependents. A dependent releases them only once its own removal is confirmed. Otherwise they stay until the port closes, though the Rust allocations are still freed. TemplateTable::destroy refuses a table that abandoned or forgotten rules still use (InUse).
A push/pull error after enqueue is a new TemplateError::Completion. A handle whose operation has no collected completion is pending: later updates, queries and destroys return TemplateError::Pending rather than racing the late completion.
When an update's outcome is unknown, or it fails on completion, the rule keeps both its old and its new meters. In hw_cmpl_flow_update_or_destroy, mlx5 copies the update over the flow whatever the completion status. SharedTable::update (your round-2 point) now does the same for push/pull errors too.
The fault-injection PMD these paths are tested against is in flow::template::testing, behind a template-test feature, so nic-offload can drive the real wrappers without EAL or a NIC. Calls go to DPDK unless a test fixture is active.
fix(nic-offload): never leave an old policy in the NIC now also treats Completion and Pending as unknown state that loses the port, not as refusals.
fix(nic-offload): detach safely after uncertain flow operations (new):
A switch rule stays reachable while a new one is inserted, so poisoning can still detach every VPC if removing the root fails. Before, the switch was taken out during insertion, so a failure at that point hid the other VPCs' switch rules from cleanup.
Root and switch operations whose outcome is unknown are remembered. stale() is true only when both an unconfirmed root and an unconfirmed switch rule could still lead into a policy.
A generation behind an uncertain switch insertion is leaked rather than recycled.
Tests drive these paths through the fixture.
fix(nic-offload): preserve ACL logging in software (new):
A peering with any logged ACL rule now stays entirely in software, both directions and its rate limits.
Software runs acl-filter before rate-limiter, so a deny dropped in the NIC would never be logged. A NIC meter could also drop a logged allow before the filter logs it.
The differential tests generate logged rules. The hardware qualification campaigns turn logging off so they still exercise the NIC.
Still open from round 2: the BF-3 run at real meter rates (the card is booked for another test right now), and the call on small-packet leniency / billing by outer bytes.
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🤖 AI-drafted (Claude) on behalf of @mvachhar, reviewed by him before posting.
Approving at 08243b98. Every earlier finding is fixed, and the dependency counting in fix(dpdk): preserve template dependencies after uncertain operations is sound. I found no remaining way for safe code to destroy a template, table, meter or profile while a rule the NIC may still hold references it:
forgotten rules;
pending creates, updates and destroys;
failed destroys and Drops.
Pending handles being terminal, with late completions discarded, and per-port operation tags close the completion races. The fault-injection PMD is nicely kept to tests.
Before merge: the BlueField-3 run at real meter rates has to finish and pass. The offload stack (#2030 → #2031 → #2032) shouldn't merge until it's reported here.
Please fix before merge (doc only): the comments at dpdk/src/dev.rs:1239-1240 and dpdk/src/flow/template/mod.rs:100-102 say rte_flow_flush doesn't remove template rules. Under HWS it does: mlx5_flow_list_flush calls mlx5_flow_hw_q_flow_flush (mlx5_flow.c:8144-8149). It's harmless today, since that flush only runs at port stop or when claiming an abandoned port. But PortTemplates::live_rules then over-counts after such a flush, and the comment would mislead the next reader.
Non-blocking:
The failure handling is tested with hand-written cases. A bolero test over random operation and outcome sequences against the fixture, asserting nothing in use is ever destroyed, would fit the dev guide's property-testing section better.
The fixture holds every later completion behind a queued Timeout, which real per-operation completion doesn't do.
TemplateTable::destroy can't be retried after InUse. That's consistent with the sticky flag, but the doc could say the table is retained.
🤖 Written and posted by Claude on behalf of Daniel Noland (daniel-noland).
A follow-up after round 2. While checking the stack, we found more ways an operation whose outcome is unknown could free state the NIC still uses. The fixes are pushed as one new commit in #2030 and two new commits at the top of #2032. Everything is still a draft.
#2030: fix(dpdk): preserve template dependencies after uncertain operations (new)
A rule's borrows of its table and meters end when its handle is dropped or mem::forget'd. That isn't when the NIC lets go of them. After a timeout, or a push/pull error once the operation was enqueued, safe code could still destroy a meter, table, template or meter profile that a live rule references.
Each native object now counts its native dependents. A dependent releases them only once its own removal is confirmed. Otherwise they stay until the port closes, though the Rust allocations are still freed. TemplateTable::destroy refuses a table that abandoned or forgotten rules still use (InUse).
A push/pull error after enqueue is a new TemplateError::Completion. A handle whose operation has no collected completion is pending: later updates, queries and destroys return TemplateError::Pending rather than racing the late completion.
When an update's outcome is unknown, or it fails on completion, the rule keeps both its old and its new meters. In hw_cmpl_flow_update_or_destroy, mlx5 copies the update over the flow whatever the completion status. SharedTable::update (your round-2 point) now does the same for push/pull errors too.
The fault-injection PMD these paths are tested against is in flow::template::testing, behind a template-test feature, so nic-offload can drive the real wrappers without EAL or a NIC. Calls go to DPDK unless a test fixture is active.
fix(nic-offload): never leave an old policy in the NIC now also treats Completion and Pending as unknown state that loses the port, not as refusals.
fix(nic-offload): detach safely after uncertain flow operations (new):
A switch rule stays reachable while a new one is inserted, so poisoning can still detach every VPC if removing the root fails. Before, the switch was taken out during insertion, so a failure at that point hid the other VPCs' switch rules from cleanup.
Root and switch operations whose outcome is unknown are remembered. stale() is true only when both an unconfirmed root and an unconfirmed switch rule could still lead into a policy.
A generation behind an uncertain switch insertion is leaked rather than recycled.
Tests drive these paths through the fixture.
fix(nic-offload): preserve ACL logging in software (new):
A peering with any logged ACL rule now stays entirely in software, both directions and its rate limits.
Software runs acl-filter before rate-limiter, so a deny dropped in the NIC would never be logged. A NIC meter could also drop a logged allow before the filter logs it.
The differential tests generate logged rules. The hardware qualification campaigns turn logging off so they still exercise the NIC.
#2032: after your approval at 2379a1ad. Eight more commits are at the top of #2032, so you may want to look at that range before merge:
fix(nic-offload): order passes after the rules of their own destination: a real enforcement gap. Passes ran ahead of every rule, so with A peering B on a default expose and C on 10.1.0.0/16, A's denies and rate limits for C were installed but never matched. Rules now carry the prefix length they were narrowed to, and tables are ordered most specific first, rules before passes of the same length.
fix(nic-offload): leave meters mlx5 cannot encode in software: covers bursts as well as rates (a large packet-mode burst could wrap), and adds Error::Unfit.
fix(nic-offload): count a refused generation against its VPC's peerings: a refusal of only a pass, catch-all or switch rule no longer reads as "everything installed".
fix(nic-offload): free unwanted meters before making new ones: also raises the meter reservation from 1,024 to 65,536 per port.
Smaller ones:
errors for missing groups;
meter counts of dropped names are forgotten;
linear-time dedup;
one FIB table handle per VTEP poll.
Still open: the BF-3 run at real meter rates, which is next, and the call on small-packet leniency / billing by outer bytes, which you have accepted for now. The run's results will be posted here before anything merges.
Wrap rte_flow templates, tables, shared meters and rules in a
synchronous, thread-bound API. Handles borrow their dependencies and
validate pattern shapes.
Use one flow queue per port, including meter operations, and round meter
reservations up to powers of two for mlx5. Tested on BlueField-3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Noland <daniel@githedgehog.com>
Add RSS actions with owned queue lists and PCI probing with driver
arguments such as dv_flow_en=2. Reject empty arguments and embedded NULs
or commas.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Noland <daniel@githedgehog.com>
Add explicit VLAN-presence and unfragmented-packet matches so offload
can follow software parsing. Include these masks in template shapes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Noland <daniel@githedgehog.com>
Match frame bytes against the spec and mask structures sent to the PMD.
Enumerate ambiguous VLAN, fragment and IPv6-extension parsing outcomes
for later hardware qualification.
Report unsupported constraints as Unmodelled.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Noland <daniel@githedgehog.com>
Let Parser select hardware-qualified IPv6 extension behavior. Model
customer VLAN tags, independent inner/outer tag parsing and later
fragments explicitly.
Property tests compare generated frame views with the net parser.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Noland <daniel@githedgehog.com>
set -o pipefail
printf'%s\n''--- clear/remove and construction blocks ---'
sed -n '280,430p' nic-offload/src/mlx5/install.rs
sed -n '590,730p' nic-offload/src/mlx5/install.rs
printf'%s\n''--- all table/rule field ownership declarations ---'
rg -n -C8 -P 'struct (Root|Generation|Switch|InstalledMeter)|root:|catch_all:|table:' nic-offload/src/mlx5/install.rs
Repository: githedgehog/dataplane
Length of output: 14114
Propagate switch-table destruction failures from clear().
clear() destroys the switch rules and then drops the switch table. SharedTable can only log a failure when its last handle is dropped, so clear() can report success while the NIC still holds the table. The port should lose state when table removal fails.
Suggested fix
self.destroy_rules("removing the switch rules", rules)?;
- drop(table);+ if let Err(e) = table.destroy() {+ return Err(self.lose("removing the switch table", e));+ }
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ifletSome(switch) = self.switch.take(){
letSwitch{
rules,
catch_all,
table,
} = switch;
let rules = rules
.into_iter()
.map(|(vni, rule)| (Some(vni), rule))
.chain([(None, catch_all)]);
self.destroy_rules("removing the switch rules", rules)?;
drop(table);
}
ifletSome(switch) = self.switch.take(){
letSwitch{
rules,
catch_all,
table,
} = switch;
let rules = rules
.into_iter()
.map(|(vni, rule)| (Some(vni), rule))
.chain([(None, catch_all)]);
self.destroy_rules("removing the switch rules", rules)?;
ifletErr(e) = table.destroy(){
returnErr(self.lose("removing the switch table", e));
}
}
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Review comment at @nic-offload/src/mlx5/install.rs around lines 710 - 722:
Update the switch cleanup in clear after destroy_rules to explicitly remove the
switch table through its supported fallible destruction path; if removal fails,
propagate the error through self.lose instead of relying on drop-time logging.
Preserve the existing rule-destruction order.
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Lower the minimum charged-or-denied share to one in six. The former 40%
bound was too close to the random mean, especially on loaded runners;
the check only needs to catch broken frame targeting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Noland <daniel@githedgehog.com>
Add typed helpers to read device numbers and create or replace character
nodes with exact permissions. Reuse creation for VFIO; replacement also
repairs stale verbs nodes after device reloads.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Noland <daniel@githedgehog.com>
Devlink reloads register verbs channels asynchronously and may renumber
them, leaving container nodes missing or stale. Rapid restarts then fail
mlx5 probing repeatedly.
Wait up to 30 seconds using the datapath namespace's sysfs view, repair
nodes and verify channels open before launching the dataplane. Report
typed failures per function.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Noland <daniel@githedgehog.com>
On mlx5 probe failure, check the verbs channel before retrying without
offload. Missing or stale channels now report their actual cause instead
of a misleading offload-memory warning.
Other probe failures retain the existing fallback.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Noland <daniel@githedgehog.com>
Add ordered drop and police rules through the ingress-policy gateway
annotation. Match source VPC, addresses, protocol, ports and TCP flags
without flow state.
Expand wildcard VPCs and address families during validation. Reuse the
rate-limit meter schema with ingress-prefixed names and outer-IP
billing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Noland <daniel@githedgehog.com>
Reuse the rate-limit stage for ordered ingress drops and policing.
Record per-VPC drop counters and bill outer IP bytes; peering meters
retain inner-IP billing.
Generalize policy publication, add policy metric labels, and compare
both classifier backends against first-match semantics.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Noland <daniel@githedgehog.com>
Run ingress enforcement before flow lookup, ACLs and peering rate
limits. Publish its policy with the overlay and export its meters
through /metrics.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Noland <daniel@githedgehog.com>
Add TCP/UDP port ranges using rte_flow last bounds. Include range fields
in template shapes because mlx5 otherwise ignores rule ranges.
Extend the model and property tests to masked range matching.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Noland <daniel@githedgehog.com>
Lower ingress rules in first-match order before ACLs and peering limits.
Support port ranges and chained byte/packet meters; pass unsupported
matches or meters to software.
Separate meter identities by policy. Keep downstream peering limits in
software when looser NIC ingress meters could charge extra traffic, or
required ingress rules cannot be installed.
Extend differential and hardware tests to ingress ordering, fragments,
ranges, meter chains and counters.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Noland <daniel@githedgehog.com>
Condense module summaries and implementation rationale while preserving API contracts, hardware constraints and examples.
Co-Authored-By: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Noland <daniel@githedgehog.com>
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Stack (NIC offload; review and merge in order):
The dpdk side of offloading policy into the NIC (mlx5 hardware steering,
dv_flow_en=2):flow::template): pattern and actions templates, tables, meter profiles and meters(METER_MARK), rules, per-rule meters and jumps, RSS, MARK, in-place action updates; synchronous facade over one
flow queue, operations tagged so a late completion is never credited to another. Borrowed handles for code that
builds and holds a rule set in one place (a rule can't outlive its table or meters,
compile_faildoctests);shared (
Rc) handles that own their dependencies for rule sets replaced piecemeal. A rule knows its table andport: updating it through another table, or mixing ports, is a typed error. Tables are destroyed explicitly.
flow::model: interprets the very spec/mask structs the PMD reads against frame bytes, with the parserbehaviour qualified on mlx5 (IPv6 extension headers walked, C-tags only as VLANs, tags per level, nothing parsed
past a later fragment). Used by nic-offload as a test oracle, and held to the
netparser by a property test.(The integrity verdicts moved to (4) nic-offload: drop corrupt VXLAN packets in the NIC #2033.)
No behaviour change for existing users. Tested on a BlueField-3 (via the later PRs' qualification).
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