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The NEXT-C-SID mechanism described in [1] offers the possibility of encoding several SRv6 segments within a single 128 bit SID address. Such a SID address is called a Compressed SID (C-SID) container. In this way, the length of the SID List can be drastically reduced. A SID instantiated with the NEXT-C-SID flavor considers an IPv6 address logically structured in three main blocks: i) Locator-Block; ii) Locator-Node Function; iii) Argument. C-SID container +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Locator-Block |Loc-Node| Argument | | |Function| | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ <--------- B -----------> <- NF -> <------------- A ---------------> (i) The Locator-Block can be any IPv6 prefix available to the provider; (ii) The Locator-Node Function represents the node and the function to be triggered when a packet is received on the node; (iii) The Argument carries the remaining C-SIDs in the current C-SID container. This patch leverages the NEXT-C-SID mechanism previously introduced in the Linux SRv6 subsystem [2] to support SID compression capabilities in the SRv6 End.X behavior [3]. An SRv6 End.X behavior with NEXT-C-SID flavor works as an End.X behavior but it is capable of processing the compressed SID List encoded in C-SID containers. An SRv6 End.X behavior with NEXT-C-SID flavor can be configured to support user-provided Locator-Block and Locator-Node Function lengths. In this implementation, such lengths must be evenly divisible by 8 (i.e. must be byte-aligned), otherwise the kernel informs the user about invalid values with a meaningful error code and message through netlink_ext_ack. If Locator-Block and/or Locator-Node Function lengths are not provided by the user during configuration of an SRv6 End.X behavior instance with NEXT-C-SID flavor, the kernel will choose their default values i.e., 32-bit Locator-Block and 16-bit Locator-Node Function. [1] - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-spring-srv6-srh-compression [2] - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220912171619.16943-1-andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it/ [3] - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8986#name-endx-l3-cross-connect Signed-off-by: Andrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it> Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230812180926.16689-2-andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
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appletalk | ||
atm | ||
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bpfilter | ||
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caif | ||
can | ||
ceph | ||
core | ||
dcb | ||
dccp | ||
devlink | ||
dns_resolver | ||
dsa | ||
ethernet | ||
ethtool | ||
handshake | ||
hsr | ||
ieee802154 | ||
ife | ||
ipv4 | ||
ipv6 | ||
iucv | ||
kcm | ||
key | ||
l2tp | ||
l3mdev | ||
lapb | ||
llc | ||
mac80211 | ||
mac802154 | ||
mctp | ||
mpls | ||
mptcp | ||
ncsi | ||
netfilter | ||
netlabel | ||
netlink | ||
netrom | ||
nfc | ||
nsh | ||
openvswitch | ||
packet | ||
phonet | ||
psample | ||
qrtr | ||
rds | ||
rfkill | ||
rose | ||
rxrpc | ||
sched | ||
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strparser | ||
sunrpc | ||
switchdev | ||
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tls | ||
unix | ||
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wireless | ||
x25 | ||
xdp | ||
xfrm | ||
compat.c | ||
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socket.c | ||
sysctl_net.c |