Message ID | 20220323105602.30072-1-boris.sukholitko@broadcom.com (mailing list archive) |
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Headers | show |
Series | flower: match on the number of vlan tags | expand |
On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:55:57 +0200 Boris Sukholitko wrote: > Our customers in the fiber telecom world have network configurations > where they would like to control their traffic according to the number > of tags appearing in the packet. > > For example, TR247 GPON conformance test suite specification mostly > talks about untagged, single, double tagged packets and gives lax > guidelines on the vlan protocol vs. number of vlan tags. > > This is different from the common IT networks where 802.1Q and 802.1ad > protocols are usually describe single and double tagged packet. GPON > configurations that we work with have arbitrary mix the above protocols > and number of vlan tags in the packet. > > The following patch series implement number of vlans flower filter. They > add num_of_vlans flower filter as an alternative to vlan ethtype protocol > matching. The end result is that the following command becomes possible: > > tc filter add dev eth1 ingress flower \ > num_of_vlans 1 vlan_prio 5 action drop # Form letter - net-next is closed We have already sent the networking pull request for 5.18 and therefore net-next is closed for new drivers, features, code refactoring and optimizations. We are currently accepting bug fixes only. Please repost when net-next reopens after 5.18-rc1 is cut. RFC patches sent for review only are obviously welcome at any time.